[mythtv-users] Watch list problem

[Michael T. Dean]

On 10/08/2008 04:02 PM, Johnny Russ wrote:

>  On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 2:52 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> >
> > On 10/08/2008 02:24 PM, Johnny Russ wrote:
> >>
> >>> If I want to watch an episode and know I want to watch another
> >>> after, I go to that show's folder and pick the ones I want to
> >>> see. Since I sort my original air date, it's easy to figure out
> >>> which one is "next" for me.
> >>
> >> This is problematic for people who keep episodes around after
> >> they have watched them. If you keep a whole season or several
> >> seasons, then it is more difficult to narrow down the next
> >> unwatched episode. The watch list fixes this by clearing out all
> >> of the watched episodes and all but the oldest unwatched episode.
> >
> > Which is why there's a sort-by-original-airdate option for the
> > Watch Recordings screen.  Assuming you have good listings data (I
> > know that Schedules Direct does, FWIW), it works great.
>
>  I realize you can sort them, but you still have the issue of
>  scrolling a lot of episodes


True.

>  and remembering which one you watched
>  already.


Unless you a) mark them as watched or b) allow Myth to automatically 
mark them as watched.  When you do so, there's a nice icon with most 
(all?) themes that shows you that the show has been watched (hit 1 or F1 
to see the icons and their meanings).

>  This really isn't a big deal. There is a setting in TV
>  Settings -> Playback (page 6) under the watch list settings for the
>  number of days to exclude and episode. It won't let you set it below
>  1 day. It would nice if the defaulted to 0. At a minimum it should be
>  allowed to be set to 0. However, the only way to set it to 0 is by
>  going in and doing it manually. I am know there are lots of ways of
>  doing things for all of our differing methods of using mythtv. This
>  seems to seems to bea case where a simple adjustment could
>  accommodate a lot of users.


I haven't been providing any input on that (the actual on-topic stuff) 
because I have my own way of choosing what to watch and it doesn't 
involve the Watch List, so I'm not really affected by any changes.  (My 
way involves recording an entire season before I start watching so I can 
watch episodes without forgetting what happened while waiting for the 
next episode.  It necessarily assumes I have more than enough storage 
and my shows won't be autoexpired, meaning I don't have to catch up.  :)

Mike