2004-12-14, 07:35 AM
I've tried to read all the forum to learn what I can - Â there's a lot of stuff out there. Â I guess the biggest thorn in my side (or, maybe it's the pea under my mattresses) has to do with "conflicts". Â I get enough of that in my real life and from Lost, Desperate Housewives and Alias.
I don't really remember how GBPVR resolves them - first one scheduled gets recorded, or last one scheduled gets recorded or maybe neither of those is correct. Â In any case, I've resorted to manually verifying the programs I want to record show in red in the TV Guide listing. Â Let me propose an idea to help automate the resolution.
Add a "priority" to each program scheduled. Â This could be a number from 1-10 (or 1-100, or anything) with, let's say, 10 being the most important. Â A value of 5 could be assigned to everything by default. Â If users decide they don't want to take advantage of this feature they wouldn't have to change this priority and conflicts would be resolved as before. Â Nothing would change.
In my case I would assign a value of 4 to Friends and 2 to Good Eats. Â Lost, LAX, Desperate Housewives would get 5 or maybe 7. Â Alias, of course gets the most important priority!
GBPVR would go about building its recording schedule as usual but would have one more routine available when a conflict is encountered:Â the program with the highest priority would get scheduled.
Yes, it's possible, even with this priority system, a conflict would occur at user specified priorities, Â They would be handled the same as before the system was in place (and the same as conflicts are resolved at the default level.) Â Basically, nothing would change in that case. Â With 10 priorities the conflicts could be greatly reduced.
This way, I won't have to worry about which order I entered my schedule. Â I'll get all the episodes of Friends unless something with a higher priority is in conflict. Â Maybe the producers can resolve all the character conflicts for me.
Is there something like this already implemented, or has this been suggested before? Â I'm interested to hear what people have to say about it.
Thanks,
Bebop
I don't really remember how GBPVR resolves them - first one scheduled gets recorded, or last one scheduled gets recorded or maybe neither of those is correct. Â In any case, I've resorted to manually verifying the programs I want to record show in red in the TV Guide listing. Â Let me propose an idea to help automate the resolution.
Add a "priority" to each program scheduled. Â This could be a number from 1-10 (or 1-100, or anything) with, let's say, 10 being the most important. Â A value of 5 could be assigned to everything by default. Â If users decide they don't want to take advantage of this feature they wouldn't have to change this priority and conflicts would be resolved as before. Â Nothing would change.
In my case I would assign a value of 4 to Friends and 2 to Good Eats. Â Lost, LAX, Desperate Housewives would get 5 or maybe 7. Â Alias, of course gets the most important priority!
GBPVR would go about building its recording schedule as usual but would have one more routine available when a conflict is encountered:Â the program with the highest priority would get scheduled.
Yes, it's possible, even with this priority system, a conflict would occur at user specified priorities, Â They would be handled the same as before the system was in place (and the same as conflicts are resolved at the default level.) Â Basically, nothing would change in that case. Â With 10 priorities the conflicts could be greatly reduced.
This way, I won't have to worry about which order I entered my schedule. Â I'll get all the episodes of Friends unless something with a higher priority is in conflict. Â Maybe the producers can resolve all the character conflicts for me.
Is there something like this already implemented, or has this been suggested before? Â I'm interested to hear what people have to say about it.
Thanks,
Bebop