[mythtv-users] Duplicate Channels Cleanup

[Mike Perkins]

On 16/09/14 03:31, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 09/15/2014 07:50 PM, Eric Sharkey wrote:
>> We went over this before.
>>
>> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/570123#570123
>>
>> Just because you don't care about this kind of damage doesn't mean it
>> isn't there.
>>
>> It's clear that neither one of us has changed our opinions since last
>> May.  I'm not going to get into this one again (any more than I
>> already have).
>
> So you'd rather it say that your (ancient) show was recorded on SyFy, even
> though it was recorded on SciFi?  Or even worse, when you recorded that show on
> UPN, then your local UPN channel got turned into MyTV because there was also a
> WB channel in your market that got turned into CW, you want it to show that the
> recording came from your MyTV channel even though the rest of the series is
> airing on CW?  That seems like damage to me, versus just showing that the
> channel that aired the show doesn't exist.
>
> It's simply saying, "recorded from a channel that no longer exists." IMHO,
> that's far more accurate than saying it was recorded from some channel other
> than the one that really aired it.  Besides, those recordings will be watched
> and deleted quickly or, if they're worth keeping, they'll be archived into the
> Video Library, that--unlike the Watch Recordings screen--was designed to handle
> large collections of videos.
>
> Of course, if it really bothers you that much, just write a patch that changes
> the fallback for channel to use the station (which we store, and which contains
> the callsign) or some other value you feel is more appropriate.  I would fully
> support this because no user should ever see an internal database ID in the UI.
>
Mike, is there some reasonably accurate definition of what each of these fields 
describes, and what they are used for by myth?

I see "channel", "station", "callsign", "channel ID", "channel number" and 
"channum" in your replies to the OP. I'm sure there are other fields not 
mentioned here like "chanid" (which seems not to be the same as "channel id") 
and "frequency" which, for a digital channel, is /not/ the frequency at all.

For someone who is not US-based, most of these either have different meanings or 
are not relevant at all. Some kind of description would be useful.

We already have people describing "multiplexes" as "channels" and "channels" as 
"sub-channels" so the potential for confusion is significant.

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Mike Perkins