[mythtv-users] Myth is now recording when I exit Live TV

Hika van den Hoven hikavdh at gmail.com
Tue Jul 19 14:27:06 UTC 2016


Hoi Mark,

Tuesday, July 19, 2016, 4:08:59 PM, you wrote:


>>Of course, as always, the use of "magic numbers" is often frowned upon
>>and should not be required 
>>here. If you want to select the "LiveTV" records, why not just supply
>>that string?

> I actually thought the opposite. Given that MythTV is used in many
> countries with different languages the introduction of the recgroups
> table and a recgroupid would seem to me to allow the code to be
> written without assuming a particular user language. So terms like
> Default, LiveTV and Deleted can be translated more easily as
> necessary without breaking any "magic strings".

> Whether this was actually part of the dev motivation or not, i dont know.

> Full disclosure - i've never put my install into a non english
> language so no idea whether translations for Default, LiveTV and
> Deleted are already handled in some other fashion.

Only as far as I know in 0.27 in the frontend through the translation
tables. It is a bit weird as Default is sorted on the D but in Dutch
named Standaard. With the new ID as identifier this sorting then
should go right?!

Tot mails,
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