[mythtv-users] Can I Totally Hide Certain Recordings?

Steve Peters - Priority Electronics steve at priorityelectronics.com
Tue Mar 18 03:08:41 UTC 2008



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>Sent: Monday, March 17, 2008 7:36 PM
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>Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Can I Totally Hide Certain Recordings?
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>In MythVideo (.20.2) set all your "educational material" to parental
>group 4 in the Video Manager. Then in the Video Settings(Setup->Media
>Settings->Video  Settings->General Settings), set a Parental Control
>PIN, and set the starting parental level to 1 (lowest). Also set
>"Aggressive Parental Control" to on, to also protect these settings.
>You should now have to use your PIN to also access the Video Manager.
>
>Be aware, though, that it is a single PIN, and once authenticated, it 
>will allow you to change parental level (by pressing 1 through 4) as 
>much as you want until the default time has elapsed. You can set 
>multiple levels from 1 to 4, but pressing '2' for example will 
>bring up 
>the PIN dialog, and on successful input, will change to level 2. But 
>until it times out, you can press any other number and move to that 
>level un-opposed. So keep that functionality to yourself if you have 
>material you don't want others to know about.
>
>-Bonj
>
>James Gutshall Jr wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 9:43 PM, James Gutshall Jr 
><warchildx at gmail.com 
>> <mailto:warchildx at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>     On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 6:23 PM, Brad DerManouelian
>>     <myth at dermanouelian.com <mailto:myth at dermanouelian.com>> wrote:
>> 
>>         On Mar 17, 2008, at 3:11 PM, Steve Peters - Priority 
>Electronics
>>         wrote:
>> 
>>          > It's not a huge deal, so if it's in the works, 
>that's great.
>>         We can
>>          > wait on
>>          > it. Would be a nice touch. I think it would 
>really make each
>>          > frontend seem
>>          > like it's own separate mythbox completely since 
>ideally you'd be
>>          > able to
>>          > specify what to see on it.
>> 
>>         Maybe you can ask Anastasiya Soboleva how it's going.
>>         
>http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/SoC2006#Make_Myth_Multi-user
>> 
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>>      
>>      
>>     Or at a minimum, perhaps a password protect anything rated R or
>>     above option.  Maybe I am just retarded, but on 0.20.2, I still
>>     havent figured out how to make MythVideo hide my "Non Wife Aware"
>>     videos, unless you put in a pin number first. (basically, cannot
>>     browse the group until correct pin entered).  This would be great
>>     for mythvideo (to start) and then maybe ported over to 
>recordings as
>>     well.
>>      
>>     G rated disney movies (for my kid), and anything higher 
>than PG, use
>>     a pin.  then my daughter can browse the hundreds of kids 
>movies, but
>>     cannot see my SAW, Hostel, 13 Ghosts, etc type of movies, and
>>     especially not the "should require 2 pin numbers" type 
>of um, videos
>>     I downloaded from then net.  any ideas if any of this exist yet
>>     without having full blown multi-user?
>> 
>>      
>> 
>>  
>> That should be: Rated G/PG = OK... PG13 -> R = PIN, R+ = 2 
>pins!!! ;-)
>> 
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It's not that we have material that we don't want others to know about, but
mainly looking for a way to separate the videos and keep them so that nobody
accidently deletes someone else's shows.
-thanks




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