[mythtv] Recording Group [was: mythtv commits]

[J. Donavan Stanley]

Bruce Markey wrote:

>> Ahhh, so people are waiting on ME to do it... :)  I'll get to it.  I 
>> just
>> made a note in my TODO list about checking this screen as well when I 
>> get
>> around to changing the other stuff.
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> I also thought that the last thread ended with you signing
> up to take this on. The only change needed for this button
> would be subtitle or description rather than subtitle and
> description.
>
>> <offtopic>
>> I might get sidetracked before then though for a little while.  
>> Yesterday
>> I thought up the idea of having an attribute/column called something 
>> like
>> "Recording Group".  There would be a Default group and maybe an 
>> Auto-Expire
>> group eventually, but the user could create their own groups as well and
>> even password protect a group.  When you setup a scheduled recording, 
>> you
>> could specify a Recording Group on the Advanced Recording Options 
>> screen.
>> So I could throw all my home improvement type shows into a "Home 
>> Improvement"
>> group, movies into "Movies", my wife's TLC shows into Auto-Expire, etc..
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> Your wife must really like Junkyard Wars or do they have other
> shows? I wouldn't know, I don't even know the channel number ;-).
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>> On the playbackbox screen, you would be able to toggle which group was
>> currently being viewed or you could view ALL (provided no groups had
>> passwords).  Maybe even allow locking a frontend into only viewing a
>> particular group so someone could have a frontend that could only view
>> the kids programs, etc..
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> What I'd envision would be group names in the left hand column
> of the playbackbox screen similar to "All Programs". List all
> the groups before the alpha list of titles.
>
This could be tied into parental controls.  If the groups had ratings on 
them, then anything that was above the current PC level could not even 
show up on the list...