[mythtv] Breaking Live-TV

[Torbjörn Jansson]

mythtv-dev-bounces at mythtv.org <> wrote:
> On 11/11/05, Isaac Richards <ijr at case.edu> wrote:
>> On Friday 11 November 2005 11:04 pm, Daniel Kristjansson wrote:
>>> On Fri, 2005-11-11 at 22:07 -0500, Isaac Richards wrote:
>>>> On Friday 11 November 2005 09:49 pm, Daniel Kristjansson wrote:
>>>>> I've had this break on me when a manual record on a program was
>>>>> also 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.
>>>> 
>>> :/ I thought so.
>>> 
>>> I can't really think of an elegant hack to make this work.
>>> Fudging the starttime is kind of ugly.
>> 
>> Might be the easiest way, though.
>> 
>>> We could just make sure this never happens by checking with manual
>>> recordings by checking for chanid/starttime of recordings in the
>>> scheduler. And make sure this never happens in LiveTV by locking
>>> out channel being recorded by a scheduled recording for the first
>>> minute of each recording.
>> 
>> That seems hacky, though. :(
>> 
>>> Perhaps in the LiveTV mode we could just do the 'add a minute to
>>> starttime' hack instead of locking it out.
>> 
>> Works for one duplicate instance.  Need something that'll work for
>> more.. 
> 
> Whats the impact of changing the chanid? Does anyone have chanids
> higher than 1999?

I have, because of a small search and replace problem when i imported the
dvb channels the first time.
This was when dvb didn't have any scanning and finding channels by itself, i
accidentaly got an extra zero so all of my dvb channels have chanid's of
around 20000.

> What is the highest reasonable number? Could you
> simply add 7000 to the chanid for all LiveTV shows and have the system
> smart enough to know that 8011 was the same channel as 1011 but
> recorded by LiveTV? That also would give an easy way of indicating
> right in the filename that it was a LiveTV recording, which may have
> its benefits as well.  I know I'm talking out of my league here, but
> hope you don't mind me throwing out ideas.
> 
> Bob C

Sounds like something that could easily break.