[mythtv] Re: Watching the Watchers Re: Proposed alternate behaviour for show delete

[Tony Lill]

Geoffrey Kruse <gkruse at gmail.com> writes:

>>>
>>> It would also be nice to have different view recording pages that only
>>> showed the recordings the current user has registered for.  This would
>>> save sifting through recordings that someone else in your house
>>> recorded to find what you are looking for.  Then, when each user
>>> deletes the recording it disappears from their view recordings page
>>> but still shows up on other users' pages until they delete it.  Once
>>> everyone who has registered for the show marks it for deletion, it
>>> will be deleted.
>>
>> Good idea, but why tie this to a concept of users. Simply allow a show
>> to belong to multiple recording groups! It's deleted (or marked for
>> un-deletion) when it is removed from all recording groups.
>
> The only added benefit I can see to having users is you could have
> things like separate bookmarks for each user.  Otherwise I like the
> sound of your idea and it seems almost trivial to implement.

I always thought it was limiting that you only had a single bookmark in
the first place, and that it was automatically deleted when you
stopped viewing, and that you couldn't jump to it while you were
watching. I always thought it would be nice if I could put bookmarks
in my cooking shows at the points I'm interested in and hop between
them. You could probably clone the editing code to manage them. 

Let's see, if you had two buttons on the remote to jump to next or
previous bookmark, and stopped eraseing them on exit, that should
cover what you want, except it won't automatically jump to the right
one on a per user basis.

>>
>> For user co-ordination, you can set up groups like 'Bob's shows',
>> 'Carol's shows', ... and the delete button can allow deletes from
>> multiple groups at the same time, in case you're watching it together.
>
> Great idea...  Delete from all option could be very useful
>
>> That way, this same mechanism can be used for other purposes. For
>> example, after I watch 'Good Eats', I want to move it to an archive
>> group. Right now, I have to remember not to delete it by habit, then
>> go into the move to recording group. If groups were non-exclusive, I
>> could have it placed in both the default and archive groups when it is
>> recorded, and not have to do these extra, error prone steps. BTW, this
>> is the only situation where I've ever accidentally deleted a program.
>>
> I never thought of this situation but you make a good point.  Being
> able to have a show in multiple recording groups would add some
> usefulness to myth.  I have never actually set up recording groups.
> When you set up a group, are you still able to browse the shows by
> name within that group?   (ie, are the shows grouped within the group)

Yes. What you are normally looking at is the "Default" recording
group. If you change to another group view, you get exactly the same
interface, just with a different set of shows. Also, when you set up
multiple groups, you can also view "All Programs" if you like.
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