[mythtv-users] New recordings option

Curtis Stanford curtis at stanfordcomputing.com
Fri Jul 16 19:44:32 EDT 2004


Awesome explanation, thanks. How does the 'New episodes' option work in the 
GUI. When I pick it, it doesn't seem to work the same as the other options 
(i.e. subtitle and description, etc.)

On July 16, 2004 05:30 pm, Bruce Markey wrote:
> Curtis Stanford wrote:
> > Can someone explain to me if and how this works in the current CVS? All
> > the changes to the scheduling options are really confusing me. When I
> > change a show to record new episodes only, nothing happens and the
> > setting returns to what it was before. I have added the --mark-repeats
> > option to filldb.
>
> The best way to be sure that all entries are marked is to empty
> your program table and let mythfilldatabase re-fill  it from
> scratch.
>
> The only way you'd see a difference with the new episodes option
> is if you found a show with a mix of episodes that whose air date
> are within 14 days that y0you hadn't recorded previously and old
> episodes that you you had not recorded previously. It would exclude
> the old but unrecorded episodes (that do actually have an original
> air date) and mark them with a lowercase "r" on the conflicts page
> (but then this would also be true if their aren't any new episodes).
>
> > I noticed someone say that the recordoverride table was going away? I
> > never understood the override thing anyway. If anyone can elaborate or
> > point to some docs on it I would appreciate it.
>
> "recordoverride" hasn't been used for months to mark things
> that are forced to record or force to not record and has nothing
> to do with the above new episode stuff.
>
> "Overrides" are now simply included in the "record" table along
> with the other record types. There are 'do record' overrides and
> 'don't record' overrides
>
> Don't record is simply saying that you do not want this specific
> showing to be recorded. Say there is a conflict and you know that
> one of the shows doesn't need to be recorded. you can click the
> "Don't record" button then the conflicts page marks it with "X"
> and the scheduler will not record it but may schedule a later
> showing if there are other showing of that same episode. If it
> is an episode you've seen before, you can click "Never record"
> and it will also add an entry to the "oldrecorded" table so that
> episode will not be recorded in the future either.
>
> The 'do record' type is sort of like a single record on top of
> something that matches a series and allows you to add special
> attributes to just this one showing. This is useful to change
> the priority, starttime, endtime, recording profile, etc. for
> just one showing.
>
> Say for example you have a channel record for "The Joe Schmo
> Show" on SpikeTV. They now show new episodes on Monday night
> from 11:05 - 12:00. However, they really run from ~11:08 - 12:08.
> You can add an override for the Monday showing to add ten minutes
> to the endoffset. This just affects the one showing and all the
> other showings that are covered by the channel record rule will
> still end on time.
>
> --  bjm


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