[mythtv] conflict resolution

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 04:59:46PM -0600, David Engel wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 12:01:01PM -0800, Bruce Markey wrote:
> > Could this be merged with the existing
> > conflictresolutionoverride tables and code or is it better to
> > keep this separate? 
> 
> No, they are really different things.  The recordoverrides are more
> like hints to the scheduler on specific episodes.  Recording conflicts
> can still occur which is where conflictresolutionoverride and the
> various ranks come in.
> [...]
> > I could do this if I could mark either the 8:00 Nova or 9:00
> > Joe Schmo as "don't record" so it would record the late night
> > repeat instead. Note that I wouldn't want to spoof the Nova
> 
> This situtation is actually why I created the the override "do
> record".  If you use a "don't record" on the early episode and a
> conflict occurs on the late episode and you don't notice it, you might
> not get either episode recorded.  However, if you use a "do record" on
> the late episode, the scheduler will hopefully be smart enough to fall
> back to the eariler episode if needed.

If you think about it, this is only a rather small step below incorporating
conflicts into overrides entirely, and I do think it makes sense to do it
that way.

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 - mdz