[mythtv-users] Watch list problem

[Fred Squires]

On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 4:41 PM, Yeechang Lee <ylee at pobox.com> wrote:
> Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> says:
> * A more serious issue is that themes don't by default display
>  original-airdate data using the built-in %ORIGINALAIRDATE% variable,
>  even if the data exists, so sort-by-original-airdate set as default
>  would confuse people unless they bothered to look at Program Details
>  for each episode.
>
>  I've patched Retro and Retro-OSD to do this on my setup. This way,
>  in Watch Recordings, instead of
>
>  Married ... With Children
>  175 TBSHD   Wed 8 Oct 2008, 3:30am - 4:01am
>  "At the Zoo"
>  Steve visits the zoo instead of looking for work.
>
> I see
>
>  Married ... With Children
>  175 TBSHD   Wed 8 Oct 2008, 3:30am - 4:01am
>  "At the Zoo" (Sun 26 Nov 1989)
>  Steve visits the zoo instead of looking for work.
>
> The OSD also shows the airdate in the same way.
>
> If there is no subtitle, the airdate gets displayed by itself if
> available; otherwise the entire line is skipped. Thanks to the clever
> coders of the theme system that provided a proviso to make this
> possible.
>
> (See <URL:http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/4627> for a bug I fixed
> within programinfo.cpp related to %ORIGINALAIRDATE%. I couldn't figure
> out how to fix the related issue of how, for programs whose episodes
> don't carry individual original airdates, %ORIGINALAIRDATE% gets set
> to the first date the program ever aired. SportsCenter is one example
> of this: Every episode displays an original airdate of Fri 7 Sep
> 1979. In such cases %ORIGINALAIRDATE% ought to be nulled out the way
> my patch does for %movies. I hope someone more talented than me takes
> up the challenge.)
>
> Anyways, I hope that, as part of the ongoing work of converting the
> stock themes to the new UI system, %ORIGINALAIRDATE% is incorporated
> into them. Why not take advantage of data and features that are
> already there?

What would be even nicer is if the %LONGREPEAT% tag would work in the
Recordings list.  For some reason this tag will not display there.
It's the tag that shows "Repeat - 06/16/1978"  or something similar in
the Upcoming recordings list.  The data appears to exist to support
the tag but it must be disabled in the code.
Personally I'd like to see which recordings are new episodes and which
are repeats.

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