On Tuesday 25 January 2005 09:23 pm, Doug Larrick wrote: > thor wrote: > > Attached is a short patch that will add a command line option > > (--no_channel_name_updates) to mythfilldatabase. This will prevent the > > updating logic from rewriting the channel's name with whatever it is > > called by the source of the listing data. Ie. You can edit your channel > > names in the setup program (Channel Editor) and those custom names will > > not get overwritten. > > > > I sent it as a patch rather than just commiting it as I've never touched > > mythfilldatabase before, and I have not really thought through all the > > logic. > > Note that the way you've coded this will only take effect for > DataDirect. Which is fine, but the help text should probably say so. > > There was some brief discussion about having mythfilldatabase not touch > existing channel names, channum, or freqid at all for existing channels. > The advantage of this would be if Zap2it has incorrect or cosmetically > unappealing info, user's hand edits would be preserved. The > disadvantage is that Myth won't automatically track channel > reassignments (the user would have to delete the channel to get it > recreated). This change would also be more compatible with allowing > HDTV/DVB in-stream guide data to be the master source of channel > information. > > This change would be easy enough to put together (quite similar to the > patch from the quoted message); does anyone have any further thoughts on > this?
I certainly don't mind dropping the update until there's a better method in place to do it. Isaac _______________________________________________ mythtv-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-dev
