Re: Sort by Time and Channel.

Hi Rob Medros,

You said that when using tv_sort, if you sort by time then the
channels are out of order.  You wanted to sort by time first and then
by channel.  I promised to add this as a feature.

Sorry, when I wrote my reply I wasn't thinking straight.  In fact
tv_sort already sorts the channels if there are two programmes with
the same times.  The sorting is:

  - By start time
  - If start times are the same, then by stop time
  - If both times are the same, then by channel id

You could be getting the wrong result for one of two reasons:

  - tv_sort is ordering by stop time, but you want it to ignore the
    stop time and arrange shows by start time and channel only.

  - tv_sort is comparing the internal channel ids - those strings in
    the XML file that look like domain names - but you want it to sort
    by the channel's display name.

Can you make a small XML file, with perhaps three or four programmes,
which tv_sort doesn't sort the way you want?  Send that to me and
describe what sorting order you think it should have.  Then I'll see
whether a new feature in tv_sort is needed.

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Ed Avis <ed@xxxxxxxxxxx>