[mythtv] upnp sort order - proposed patch

Raymond Wagner raymond at wagnerrp.com
Sun Mar 16 21:32:30 UTC 2014


On 3/16/2014 5:25 PM, Bob Arendt wrote:
> On 03/16/2014 01:20 PM, Raymond Wagner wrote:
>> On 3/16/2014 4:00 PM, Bob Arendt wrote:
>>> I found the sort
>>> "By Title" feature much more usable when if the folder
>>> contents were sorted by "programid"
>>
>> programid should be treated as a completely arbitrary value, and
>> cannot be expected to have any sensible sequential numbering. It's
>> only proper use is as a unique ID for use with duplicate matching.
>
> OK - then the ordering must be a side-effect of Schedules Direct.
> The programid seems to be composed of a showid followed by a episode
> number.  I understand that this convention might not be universal.
>
> What would be nice is if UPNP could configure the secondary sort key(s).
> Then a user might be able to configure the set-up to use original air date
> or programid rather than title.  And the config file would carry the choice
> between S/W updates (currently I pull source, patch, & rebuild).

There are explicit season/episode number fields available for 
recordings, however those are not always going to be populated.


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