[mythtv] Use callsign for scheduling

Joseph A. Caputo jcaputo1 at comcast.net
Fri Apr 16 11:55:41 EDT 2004


On Friday 16 April 2004 11:10, Isaac Richards wrote:
> On Friday 16 April 2004 10:42 am, Joseph A. Caputo wrote:
> > You could just as easily make the callsign "FOOBAR 1".  It doesn't
> > matter.  What matters is that 2 channels with the same callsign
> > will be treated by scheduler as identical in terms of program
> > availability.  2 channels with different callsigns will be treated
> > separately by the scheduler.
>
> And even if they have the same callsign but different schedules, it
> doesn't really matter.  It does go by more than just starttime and
> endtime and channel. =)

Right, sorry if my explanation was incomplete.  It's just that a "record 
on this channel" type of recording would be able to record on either 
"channel" (i.e. broadcast frequency/source) if they have the same 
callsign.  Did I get that right?

-JAC


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