[mythtv-users] making my own recording categories

[John P Poet]

On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 3:44 PM, Johnny<jarpublic at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'd like to be able to create 2 left-side entries: Movies and Recordings,
>> so I can put singular recordings into their own container and get them out
>> of the left-side list. Then I would have
>>
>>  All Programs
>>  Movies
>>  Recordings
>>  episodic program 1
>>  ...
>>  episodic program N
>>
>> It would be a bonus if new recordings could be put into their respective
>> category, but I'd be happy to have a way to move them somehow, even if
>> it's some SQL juggling.
>
> I have been very interested in something very similar. I record a lot
> of movies and they make it so the "Show Titles" option is unusable. It
> would be nice if there was one more level to the hierarchy as you
> suggest. Then you could go start off with recording groups in the left
> hand then when you enter a group you see the series titles fill the
> left column and episodes for the selected series in the right.
> However, since I don't have the knowledge to code that up I get by
> with using the current recording groups. I set things up into a few
> logical recording groups and then I only show recording groups in the
> left column.
>
> For your arrangement you could make a recording group for movies and
> then individual recording groups for each of your shows. Once it was
> all set up stuff would all go into the right recording group
> automatically as it recorded, and you would have what you described on
> the left. That is a bit tedious to set up for each show though.
>
> Alternately you could set up two recording groups, Movies and
> Recordings. Then you can switch back and forth between the two using
> the "Group Filter" option with only "Show Titles" enabled. I think
> there is someway to map that to a key on your remote so that it will
> rotate through the recording groups in the group filter, but I don't
> know the details.


http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/6318


John
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