[mythtv-commits] Ticket #829: patch to assist scheduling unique (new) movies

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#829: patch to assist scheduling unique (new) movies
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 Reporter:  tom at openhardware.net  |       Owner:  ijr
     Type:  enhancement           |      Status:  new
 Priority:  minor                 |   Milestone:     
Component:  mythtv                |     Version:     
 Severity:  low                   |  
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 I run a terabyte server which I use to store edited movies.  The server is
 accessable to mythtv via nfs.  This the "Utilities/setup | Setup | Media
 setup | Videos settings | General settings" and "directory which holds
 videos" (mounted as '/VideoLib').  Currently, I have 300+ movies in that
 directory.  I found two issues with the stock behavior of "Manage
 recordings | Schedule recordings | Search lists | Movies" which made the
 scheduling rather tedious:

 1) by nature, the schedule is organized by date + time + title.  This
 causes replications I had to weed my way through, I found that I would
 duplicate recording of the same movie twice as I forgot that I had already
 scheduled an earlier showing.

 2) Once I got up around 80 or so movies in /VideoLib I started to schedule
 movies that I already had on the video server.  Once I had gone through
 the list of movies and scheduled them for recording, I would then have to
 tediously check for duplicates.

 This patch does two things:

 A) it changes the display of the movie list so that it is sorted by: title
 + unique.
 B) it also removes titles which currently exist within the /VideoLib
 (current copies on the Video Library).

 I did this by modifying the proglist.cpp so that an additional choice was
 added to the popup menu: "Unique".  By selecting "Unique", a new mysql
 command is issued to do the "unique" and "left join" to present me with
 the desired listing.  This has made the scheduling of new movies so much
 easier and I would like to see this added to upcoming releases of MythTV
 so I won't have to re-patch?

 Regards,

 TomW

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