[mythtv-users] Tracking which encoder shows record on.

Jeff junk_inbox at verizon.net
Fri Sep 11 18:45:35 UTC 2009


On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 2:22 PM, <f-myth-users at media.mit.edu> wrote:

>
> P.S.  Yes, yes, if you rearrange your inputs, you've invalidated the
> stored data.  I contend that this corner case is no reason to ensure
> lossage for people who -don't- rearrange their inputs or for people
> who rearrange them but keep notes about when they did so.  Ditto re
> udev vs kernel loading order---presumably if the data was valid in the
> log, it's valid in the DB, and depriving the DB of it when it's valid
> seems pointless.  (As does saying, "grep it out of the log" if the log
> would be wrong for the same reason.  Those people for whom it's right
> or who can make it right could find it very handy to have.  Not all of
> us have things load in nondeterministic order.)
>

That's why I suggested using the 'displayinput' text field - that would
should be unique for each input.

Granted, it's a 64-byte column, but disk is cheap nowadays, and even with
1300 recordings like I currently have, that column would add less than 1MB
to the database size - trivial IMHO.

J-e-f-f-A
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