Possible Scheduling Problem with SDEPG and v9

[wnjj]

Originally Posted by Tiki

Unfortunately Sage relies on the HD flag attached to each airing in the EPG and doesn't have a mechanism for tracking HD channels. Would be nice if you could tell Sage that a given channel was HD and it should treat everything on that channel as HD regardless of the EPG flag.

Good point. When it comes to recording scheduling that makes the most sense. It should prefer HD channels over SD, not HD shows. If a show is SD on an HD channel, it's because it's older and there isn't an HD version or it's simply a mistake in the EPG.

The code for preferring HD airings is in Scheduler.java, controlled by the properties setting "prefer_hdtv_recordings_over_sdtv."

  final boolean preferHD = Sage.getBoolean("prefer_hdtv_recordings_over_sdtv", true);
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      if (preferHD && a1.isHDTV() != a2.isHDTV())
      {
        // We care about doing HD over SD and one of these is HD while the other is not. In this case we pick the HD
        // one first.
        return a1.isHDTV() ? -1 : 1;
      }

Airings have an associated StationID. Does the EPG have any data to know which channels are HD? There may need to be a new field added to the Wiz DB channel table to mark as HD.

Another option is when airings get created, all airings sharing a channel with any HD airing get marked HD.

[rickgillyon]

Originally Posted by wnjj

Another option is when airings get created, all airings sharing a channel with any HD airing get marked HD.

This makes sense, but probably a good idea to allow it to be disabled in case it breaks stuff for some people.

[Fuzzy]

Originally Posted by wnjj

Airings have an associated StationID. Does the EPG have any data to know which channels are HD? There may need to be a new field added to the Wiz DB channel table to mark as HD.

Another option is when airings get created, all airings sharing a channel with any HD airing get marked HD.

No, there is no flagging of a channel as being HD or not. Best that could be done is to 'guess' from the callsign, but that is certainly not a reliable method. Alternatively, we could actually add a new property to the channel object to hold this value, and it could be set a variety of ways (based on resolution data from a channel scan and/or updated with recordings), or even a manual flag set in the channel config screen.

[BobPhoenix]

Originally Posted by Fuzzy

a manual flag set in the channel config screen.

Personally this would be MY preference if I had a vote.