[mythtv-users] Column width difference title/recgroup

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von "Michael T. Dean" <mtdean at thirdcontact.com>:

>  On 10/08/2010 07:38 AM, Jan Schneider wrote:
>> why is there a different column width for the title and recgroup columns?
>>
>> The reason I'm asking is that themes pick up the fanart of a title  
>> when navigating to a recgroup. Since we often have long title names  
>> in Germany (due to annoying German subtitles attached to the  
>> original series/movie name), these could easily exceed the 32 chars  
>> of the recgroup maximum. As a result, I can't choose a recgroup  
>> name that matches the series title.
>>
>> All this is a workaround of course, I'd rather have another  
>> navigation level for series names below recording group names in  
>> the recordings screen. But that's a different story.
>
> MENU|Change Group View|Show Program Titles
>
> Won't that do what you want?

No, because this gets messy if you don't have a few series recorded  
only but also a lot of movies. Say I have 100 movies recorded and a  
dozen series. If you then show the program titles in the  
group/recording view, you could as well don't group your recordings at  
all, because it really doesn't help with organizing anymore.
What I have in mind is some semi-automatic 3rd level in the groupings,  
depending on whether there is more than one recording for a recording  
title. I for example have recording groups for series, documentary,  
etc. All movies and anything else goes into the Default group. So as  
an example, I'd would love to have a navigation like this:

Default      -> Broken Flowers
              -> Prince of Persia
Documentary  -> Planet Earth
              -> Foo Bar
Series       -> Mad Men -> Episode 1
                         -> Episode 2
              -> Weeds   -> E01
                         -> E02

The two-level navigation is fine as long as you either don't record  
many different things, or you watch series quickly and delete the  
episodes if you're done. As soon as you record either a lot of  
different stuff of keep the series episodes, the recording view  
doesn't scale well for me.
As a workaround (and that gets us back to my original issue) I create  
separate recording groups for those series that I don't view and  
delete immediately, so that they don't pollute my "Series" recording  
group.

Jan.

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