[mythtv-users] Watch list problem

[Brad DerManouelian]

On Oct 8, 2008, at 1:02 PM, Johnny Russ wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 2:52 PM, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com 
> > wrote:
> On 10/08/2008 02:24 PM, Johnny Russ wrote:
> >> If I want to watch an episode and know I want to watch another  
> after,
> >> I go to that show's folder and pick the ones I want to see. Since I
> >> sort my original air date, it's easy to figure out which one is  
> "next"
> >> for me.
> > This is problematic for people who keep episodes around after they  
> have
> > watched them. If you keep a whole season or several seasons, then  
> it is more
> > difficult to narrow down the next unwatched episode. The watch  
> list fixes
> > this by clearing out all of the watched episodes and all but the  
> oldest
> > unwatched episode.
> >
>
> Which is why there's a sort-by-original-airdate option for the Watch
> Recordings screen.  Assuming you have good listings data (I know that
> Schedules Direct does, FWIW), it works great.
>
>
> I realize you can sort them, but you still have the issue of  
> scrolling a lot of episodes and remembering which one you watched  
> already. This really isn't a big deal. There is a setting in TV  
> Settings -> Playback (page 6) under the watch list settings for the  
> number of days to exclude and episode. It won't let you set it below  
> 1 day. It would nice if the defaulted to 0. At a minimum it should  
> be allowed to be set to 0. However, the only way to set it to 0 is  
> by going in and doing it manually. I am know there are lots of ways  
> of doing things for all of our differing methods of using mythtv.  
> This seems to seems to bea case where a simple adjustment could  
> accommodate a lot of users.

I think this is what you want:

Index: globalsettings.cpp
===================================================================
--- globalsettings.cpp	(revision 18611)
+++ globalsettings.cpp	(working copy)
@@ -3715,7 +3715,7 @@

  static HostSpinBox *PlaybackWLBlackOut()
  {
-    HostSpinBox *gs = new HostSpinBox("PlaybackWLBlackOut", 1, 5, 1);
+    HostSpinBox *gs = new HostSpinBox("PlaybackWLBlackOut", 0, 5, 1);
      gs->setLabel(QObject::tr("Days to exclude weekly episodes after  
delete"));
      gs->setValue(2);
      gs->setHelpText(QObject::tr("When an episode is deleted or  
marked as "


(untested since I don't care all that much, but it was easier than to  
keep reading about this)

If it works for you, submit it as a patch and see if other people feel  
the same way you do.


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