[mythtv] Improving manual recordings

[David Engel]

On Sat, Sep 24, 2022 at 04:55:59PM -0400, Scott Theisen wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> We primarily use manual recordings due to the poor US OTA EPG data. There
> are a few things I would like to change or improve.
> 
> 1. Restore date/time subtitle if subtitle is empty.
>      * I will be testing this over the next few days.
>        https://github.com/MythTV/mythtv/commit/a28191023de31e36efaf23a2d837b4b1725ec73b
>        claims
>        https://github.com/MythTV/mythtv/commit/5f6697ecfaf9bd7175aaf99b3ef07f884d5af65c
>        is at fault for this change.

I expect John will jump in here.

> 2. As an option, or entirely, stop appending "(Manual Record)" to the
>    title of manual recordings.
>      * This would be easier to stop entirely, but I am open to keeping
>        it as an option.
>      * https://github.com/MythTV/mythtv/blob/06da3119d5a35af24df048d300f1240d48d9b3fb/mythtv/libs/libmyth/programinfo.cpp#L818
>        seems to be to blame for this, in my opinion annoying, behavior,
>        but I haven't yet tested changing it.
>      * I would keep the description still with "(Manual Record)".

I prefer to keep "(Manual Record)" in the recording rule.  I don't
have a problem with dropping it in the recordings it creates.  Maybe
Prepend it to the subtitle of recordings if you add the date/time
back.

> 3. Add the ability to set the subtitle when creating a manual recording
>    rule in mythfrontend.
>      * Would this require theme changes?

Yes.

>      * I would also like to be able to add a counter to the subtitle,
>        but that will probably prove more involved that I want to do.

My opinion would depend on if and how it was implemented.

> 4. I'm not sure if this is easily possible, but I would like to be able
>    to return to the first screen to edit a recording rule's start time,
>    duration, title, etc instead of having to delete and create a whole
>    new rule.

Might be simple.  Might be hard.  It depends on how the existing code
works which I haven't looked at in ages.

David
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