[mythtv-users] Recording rankings bug...?

[Tony Maro]

> Disclaimer:  I have not looked at the code or even installed myth yet 
> (waiting for hardware), so the conflict resolution may 
> already work the 
> way I am about to describe.
> 
> Here is a possible solution to improve the quality of 
> conflict resolution.
> 
> Lets take the example that Tony posted:
> 12/21 7-9PM Charmed   rank +1
> 12/21 7-7:30PM Simpsons rank -1
> 12/21 8-8:30PM Malcom rank -1
> 12/21 8-10PM Christmas Shoes rank +2 (one time recording)
> 
> Run one pass of the scheduler as it is currently designed to 
> determine 
> what should be recorded,  then proceed to create a "table" 
> (database or 
> otherwise) containing a list of the times the tuner still has open.
> 
>    7-7:30   |   7:30-8   |   8-8:30   |   8:30-9   |   9-9:30   |   
> 9:30-10   |
>      open    |    open    |   used       |   used      |   
> used      |   
> used        |
> 
> Then re-evaluate which shows not already set to record will 
> fit in the 
> free space:
> 
> Will Charmed Fit?    No.
> Will Simpons Fit?     Yes.
> Will Malcom Fit?      No.
> 

This sounds tough when you think of how many channels there are, but
considering you only have to do this for just scheduled recordings for a
given day, it wouldn't be that bad with a recursive function.  Keep in
mind though, that it intelligently looks to see if the same episode is
playing at a different time so it can record it then instead... Which
makes things even more complex.  Plus the rankings...  You'd need to
re-evalue sorted by rankings I think, so that the next lower ranking
gets first crack at available space.

I'm a Linux Pascal programmer (Lazarus...
http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org) so me looking at the C code wouldn't
do much good. ;-)

-Tony