[mythtv-users] Parental recordings section

[IvanK.]

On Wednesday 15 September 2004 10:18 am, Jeff C wrote:
> I have a feature idea I wanted to toss out to the group for discussion and
> consideration.
>
> I think it would be useful to be able to flag recordings as having a
> certain parental level (even if it was just off/on), just like you can tag
> videos in MythVideo so they don't appear without the password.

This has been in mythvideo for a looooong time.  Dig deeper in the setup 
section :-)

However, I'm not so sure this works for watching myth recordings, and I have a 
feeling this is what you want.

IvanK.


>
> I'm thinking of situations where the adults in the household want to record
> something that they don't want to be available to kids, or even be seen on
> the watch recordings screen.  The idea being that in addition to the normal
> show listings their would be a "Extended Listings" option which would
> prompt for a password.  The shows that were flagged with that parental
> control option would all be in there, either ordered by show name or by
> date, whatever works.  So you would loose the nice Show/Episode sorting
> inherent in the watch videos screen, but at least you would keep the kids
> out of anything they shouldn't be in.
>
> I'm interested to hear what others think, especially
> multi-machine/multi-kid households.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Jeff