[mythtv] [PATCH] - Additional duplicate detection controls

Bruce Markey bjm at lvcm.com
Mon Jan 26 18:54:32 EST 2004


Joel Feenstra wrote:
> That seems to be exactly what I wanted/did. I didn't do anything with 
> the episode number, but I just added the new options to the advanced 
> recording screen, so it is on a per show basis. I would not know where 
> to begin with the episode number thing, so I'll let him go for that one. 
> Just one less thing for him to worry about I guess.

The episode numbers are moot at this point because we don't
have any. However, if two showings each have an episode number
and they match, they should be considered duplicates for any
duplicate matching method. Therefore, they should have no
impact on the "fall back" text matching method chosen.

> ...I don't know how far up on that list this was, 

Pretty close to the top for me at this point. I spent about
a year arguing against this because the old scheduler didn't
show all of the episodes that weren't scheduled to record and
there was nothing the user could do (easily) to record episodes
that the scheduler would skip. Every lengthly thread on the
subject was filled with comments that showed that the users
would, more often than not, misunderstand the impact of other
matching methods and how the user could blindly miss episodes
that they would have wanted.

However, my attitude changed after David added overrides and
record status information in his scheduler. Now you can see
every showing and the reason it was skipped. The user can
not only force an episode to record but can examine why it
was skipped and rethink which method they should use for that
title. I even anticipated this feature when updating the dialog
text for "P" status. This is intended to let the user know
that she may have the wrong method if this was a showing
that she wanted to record.

Still I believe there needs to be some user documentation
to really explain the impact of each duplicate policy and
give examples of how some of the policies don't work as
expected for many shows and give tips on situations to watch
out for. I would be will to tackle this but not right now.

IMHO, I don't believe this should go into 0.14 at this point
but soon after so that it can get a thorough shake down before
0.15.

--  bjm


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