[mythtv-users] New version of MythTV (0.17)

Jim Gifford maillist at jg555.com
Mon Jan 31 23:03:34 EST 2005


Preston Crow wrote:

>On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 22:18, Jim Gifford wrote:
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>>The one feature I would like to see, and I don't think it would be a big 
>>deal to include. Is to only record new shows. I brought this up before 
>>but got no response. Here is my example, yes forgive me I'm a scifi fan.
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>>Stargate SG-1 is one numerous times on the Sci-Fi channel. Since I 
>>travel every week, I have to record every instance of the show, which 
>>basically is about 8 episodes a week (16 GIG of space). If there was on 
>>option to record only first run shows, this would cut it down to only 
>>recording one show a week. Yes, I could set it up to record on Friday at 
>>a certain time, but the point is I only want to record the first run 
>>shows only.
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>Just go into the upcoming recordings menu and tell it which ones you've
>already seen.  Select "Never Record" for the ones you've seen, and it
>will behave as if you've previously recorded it.  This is great for
>picking up the few episodes that you missed the first time around.  It's
>a bit of work at first, but once you've gone through the whole cycle, it
>works perfectly.
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>Of course, the other option is to restrict your recording to weekly
>timeslots.  For something like SG-1 that's on in two timeslots, set both
>to record so that it can get the second showing if there's a conflict on
>the first.  That's not quite as good, as it doesn't adapt if the
>schedule changes to a different day of the week.
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>Of course, you can always log in remotely and delete the showings you
>don't want to watch using mythweb.
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What I was thinking is since there is an airdate in the xml listings, 
there could be a check done at that level instead of all the manual 
intervention.

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