Re: UK-RT Grabber Prog Titles To Process Change Requests Thread

On 20/07/2011 12:27, David Watkins wrote:
> I think this caused my mythtv system to miss recording this programme
> last night.   I'd created a recording rule and seen the programme in
> the upcoming recording list; but it didn't get recorded and there's no
> sign in the logs that mythttv made any attempt to record it.

I too had originally scheduled recordings for the two individual long 
titles ("Richard Hammond's Journey to the Centre of the Planet" and 
"Richard Hammond's Journey to the Bottom of the Ocean"), and had to 
create a new recording rule for the "Richard Hammond's Journey to..." title.

Luckily I subscribe to this list so I expected this to happen, but it 
does make me wonder about what is presumably the majority of people who 
use tv_grab_uk_rt but who don't subscribe to this list.

In an ideal world, it would be great if there was a technological 
solution to this problem. For example, some kind of mechanism where 
XMLTV can indicate to applications like MythTV that a title has been 
changed, and allow the application to decide what to do about that, e.g. 
alert the user (obviously only if they have a recording rule that will 
be affected).

Failing that, maybe there should be guidelines regarding how close to 
transmission we will allow changes like this to be made. This change was 
made only a day or so before transmission...

Cheers,

John

-- 
John Veness, MythTV user, UK, DVB-T

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