[mythtv-users] Odd behaviour when a program is scheduled to record by two schedules at once

Kevin Kuphal kkuphal at gmail.com
Fri Jun 20 15:43:32 UTC 2008


On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 10:39 AM, Nick Morrott <knowledgejunkie at gmail.com>
wrote:

>  On 20/06/2008, Kevin Kuphal <kkuphal at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 10:23 AM, Nick Morrott <
> knowledgejunkie at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > On 19/06/2008, David Engel <david at istwok.net> wrote:
> > >
> > > >  a record all on any channel rule.  In your case, both schedules are
> > > >  record all on any channel so a tie breaker is used and the schedule
> > > >  which was create earlier wins.  If you recreate your rules in the
> > > >  opposite order, you should get what you want.
> > >
> > > David,
> > >
> > > Without seeking reprisals from the scheduling gods, could you please
> > > explain why, in the case of such a tie, the overall priority does not
> > > dictate which rule wins when their specificity is the same? The
> > > frontend offers an easy way to view/increase/decrease priority for
> > > rules, but a complicated rule could take a fair amount of effort to
> > > recreate.
> >
> >
> > How could the overall priorities be different in the case of a tie?  If
> the
> > priorities were different, the higher priority item would win.  The only
> way
> > you have a tie where the age of the rule comes into effect is in the case
> of
> > identical resulting priorities on different rules.
>
> Per the initial post, the rules would appear to have different
> priorities and the /lower/ priority rule was being scheduled, hence
> why I asked. David stated (I may have read more into it than he posted
> though) that "When two schedules match the same program, the more
> specific rule generally wins regardless of the priorities". Therefore,
> if the rules have the same specificity, than the earlier rule wins and
> not the rule with higher priority..


You shouldn't believe everything you read on the internet :)  Scheduling
isn't as easy as "most specific wins".  See:

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Scheduler

Kevin
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