[mythtv] Inconsistent star ratings

Jan Schneider jan at horde.org
Mon Jan 23 16:54:20 UTC 2017


Zitat von Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com>:

> On 01/23/2017 11:01 AM, Jan Schneider wrote:
>>
>> Zitat von Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm wondering if there is some (technical or other) reason for the  
>>> UI inconsistencies regarding star ratings.
>>>
>>> My EPG grabber supports 4 stars only which is returned correctly  
>>> by XMLTV and used and calculated correctly in MythTV, and stored  
>>> as a float between 0 and 1. BUT the presentation is inconsistent  
>>> which makes this feature very unrelying for non-tech users. The  
>>> different ratings I get are:
>>> - Recording list: 1-10
>>> - Recoding or EPG details: 1-4
>>> - mythweb: 1-5
>>>
>>> Jan.
>>
>> Oh, and btw. is there some reason that this is a FLOAT, and not a  
>> DECIMAL field? This makes comparisons more complicated than  
>> necessary.
>
> Some background. I think the idea was to use a value that could then  
> be applied to whatever base we chose:
>
> https://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/7810#comment:1
>
> and the rest of the thread.

So this sounds like 1-10 is what should be used, and 1-5 is probably  
mythweb's fault, while 1-4 might be the theme's (or themes' - I've  
seen this in at least two themes) fault.

-- 
Jan Schneider
The Horde Project
https://www.horde.org/



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