[mythtv] [mythtv-commits] Ticket #2320: Add a 'watched' flag torecordings

Mark Spieth mark at dclabs.com.au
Thu Sep 7 11:59:46 UTC 2006


> On Thursday 07 September 2006 04:58, MythTV wrote:
>> Perhaps doing a percentage based amount as opposed to a static time 
>> frame.
>> Either something to the effect of it knowing/monitoring that you watched
>> 90% of the show OR that you exited the show with 10% left.
>
> Please discuss the patches in mailing list in future.
>
> A percentage alone doesn't really work for very short recordings or very 
> long
> ones - the period would either be too long or too short.
>
> I updated the patches yesterday to use a percentage with a 5 minute 
> minimum
> and 12 minute maximum threshold. Those values will probably be tweaked 
> based
> on feedback from those testing the feature.
>
> I'd be interested to know whether anyone could present a good argument for 
> not
> allowing watched and autoexpire flagged recordings from being deleted 
> first
> by the autoexpirer? I don't really want to add more settings to turn it
> on/off.
> --

perhaps another metric would be if it ended with a bookmark set its isnt 
completely watched.
cheers
mark 



More information about the mythtv-dev mailing list