[mythtv-users] Am I on crack

[James Orr]

On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 3:50 PM, Christopher X. Candreva <chris at westnet.com>
wrote:

> On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Brad DerManouelian wrote:
>
> > indicating that no current dev would put the time in to writing a patch
> > for this. Why are you jumping to Videos? Not sure why that would happen.
>
> Well, last night, the kids were watching an easter special ripped from
> DVD,
> so that's in Videos. At 8:15, Mom says "OK kids, come up for a bath, you
> can
> watch the rest afterwards".
>
> Dad goes to watch the episode of "House" that started recording 15 minutes
> earlier, so we bounce up from "Videos" to TV -- Recordings, not Live, even
> though it's on now.
>
> Oh, it's a not too great repeat I've already seen. Delete.


What's your myth box doing recording stuff you've already seen? :p.


> Hmm, what's on TV
> now then. Switch from Recordings to "Live TV" to bring up the guide.
> Nothing
> good. I'm in the mood for Home Improvement. But wait - do I want a
> first-sason episode from DVD (Videos) or 3rd season recorded off
> late-night
> CBS (Recordings).
>
> I thought this is supposed to be a Mythical Convergance box ! :-)


 I see what you're saying, but for me the stuff in "videos" and the stuff in
"recordings" is very different (sorry, live TV never gets used).  Recordings
are transient, usually deleted as soon as they are watched.  "Videos" are
permanent, or at least until I buy the DVD.  I really would not want the two
combined.  Especially as videos conveniently does not have a delete option
like recordings does.

As for having mythtv ignore stuff you have on DVD, shouldn't be that
difficult to write a script to automate some "Never Record" settings.
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