[mythtv] Breaking Live-TV

[Isaac Richards]

On Friday 11 November 2005 09:49 pm, Daniel Kristjansson wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-11-11 at 20:22 -0500, Isaac Richards wrote:
> > On Friday 11 November 2005 03:09 pm, Bob Cottingham wrote:
> > > Speaking of my family's viewing habits, I have seen my wife occasionly
> > > watching a show on LiveTV that is recording on another tuner at the
> > > same time because the show came on LiveTV after another show she was
> > > watching. What happens in a situation like this? I assume the
> > > filenames are the same whether recording from LiveTV or scheduled if
> > > you start at the beginning of the show?
> >
> > The filenames are the actual start time of the recoding, so they _should_
> > be different.  I'll probably add a check for an existing file, though, to
> > catch this for sure.
>
> I've had this break on me when a manual record on a program was also
> recorded based on the scheduled program. I think it would be simpler
> add the recorder number to the generated name than to check for the
> file... The file could be created on separate backends that share a
> store via something like NFS. This is normally set-up with some
> level of asynchrony for efficiency reasons.
>
> This also broke the DB insertion of keyframes so I wanted to have
> a closer look at this before I started working on a fix.

Hmm.  Pretty much _everything_ is keyed off of chanid/starttime.  

Isaac