[mythtv] [mythtv-commits] Ticket #6445: "Film search" could be better

[Nick Morrott]

On 10/04/2009, John P Poet <jppoet at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 5:13 PM, MythTV <mythtv at cvs.mythtv.org> wrote:
>  > #6445: "Film search" could be better
>  > ------------------------------+---------------------------------------------
>  >  Reporter:  anonymous         |       Owner:  ijr
>  >     Type:  enhancement       |      Status:  new
>  >  Priority:  minor             |   Milestone:  unknown
>  > Component:  MythTV - General  |     Version:  head
>  >  Severity:  medium            |     Mlocked:  0
>  > ------------------------------+---------------------------------------------
>  >  Hello,
>  >
>  >  Here's a great idea for the film search dialog.
>  >
>  >  Currently it's a big list of programs - sort of like the upcoming
>  >  recordings dialog, but listing only programs that are films.  I have
>  >  satellite and there are many regional variations between channels - so I
>  >  have, say, about 20 BBC One's, and this gets confusing seeing a page full
>  >  of films that are exactly the same.  If the film is repeated a few times
>  >  in the week (Film 4 does this a lot) you get loads of entries for
>  >  essentially the same film.
>  >
>  >  How about making it more like the program finder dialog?  It can list the
>  >  upcoming films (that haven't started yet) in alphabetical order.  However
>  >  because there are so many remakes and there are times different channels
>  >  will show different versions, there needs to be a sub-list (this is where
>  >  it looks like Program Finder) which lists all the showings, and the
>  >  descriptions at the bottom.
>
> I was going to tell you to hit "2" while in Manage Recordings ->
>  Schedule Recordings -> Search List -> Movies, but that does not
>  actually seem to work.  I am not sure why.

Just tried the same on my 0.21-fixes box and it "works for me" as expected.

Nick


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