[mythtv-users] MythFrontend 0.21: What is a watch list?

Richard Freeman r-mythtv at thefreemanclan.net
Tue Mar 11 01:20:50 UTC 2008


Bruce Markey wrote:
> The Watch List is another grouping or view on the Watch Recordings
> page listed in the left hand column. While other lists sort by
> time, group by title, recording group, category, etc. this one
> is sorted to suggest which recordings you may want to watch soon.
> 

Does it know enough to sort the shows by the original air date?
Sometimes when catching up on shows that I'm starting to watch
mid-season re-runs get recorded amongst new episodes.  That's great
since I'm catching up, but of course I'd rather watch the shows in the
original order where possible.  I sort by recordings by original air
date to make this easy - will this watch list do the same?

It isn't necessary to consider original recording date when comparing
different shows, but in general the list shouldn't tell me to watch
Episode 3 of some series before Episode 1 regardless of the date either
was recorded (3 might have been recorded before 1).

This sort of thing can also happen on Cable Networks - since there are
lots of showtimes to choose from and things could happen pretty flexibly
as MythTV magically resolves as many conflicts as it can.


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