[mythtv-users] better way to record / feature req

[Christian Hack]

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> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Tom Howard
> Sent: Friday, 1 August 2003 3:45 PM
> To: mythtv-users at mythtv.org
> Subject: [mythtv-users] better way to record / feature req
> 
> 
> Forgive te poor quality, Im doing this at work and all I have here is 
> mspaint.  anyway, the basic idea is that when you get to the record 
> screen, it allows you to change the time to start recording, 
> and the time 
> to stop recording (this would make it easy to adjust the 
> start-stop times 
> on an individual basis).  The record options, this is what we 
> currently 
> have.  Save latest, how many episodes to save.  1, 2, 3, 4, 
> 5, 2 days, 3, 
> days, 1 week, All Episodes.  For example, say you want to 
> record every 
> episode of Seinfield on every channel.  Thats ~4 a day.  Now 
> say you dont 
> want to fill up your HD with just seinfield, but you do like 
> to keep a 
> few episodes around to watch.  So you might set it to 'save 
> the latest 4 
> episodes'.  This would of course automatically delete a 
> previous episode 
> just before it begins the latest recording.  The idea is to 
> give the user 
> complete control, from one screen, over all aspects of a recording. 
> Just my $0.37, I may be out of line.
> 

CVS does the "keep only x episodes part" and will only remove them when
drive space gets below a configurable level. It doesn't support keep the
last x days episodes though. IMO "keep x episodes" is good enough. 

As for changing the record start and stop times, you are limited to a
pre and post additional recording on every recording. I believe that's
good enough.

CH