[mythtv-users] MythWeb Recording Schedule

David Engel david at istwok.net
Tue Jun 26 18:01:09 UTC 2012


On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 12:51:57PM -0400, Scott and Nicole Harris wrote:
> > From: david at istwok.net
> > To: mythtv-users at mythtv.org
> > Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] MythWeb Recording Schedule
> >
> > On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 11:31:29AM -0400, Scott and Nicole Harris wrote:
> > > > Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 09:41:05 -0500
> > > > The "Record New Episodes Only" option came first and is not a filter.
> > > > The scheduler still matches old programs and marks them so they show
> > > > up as "repeats" in the View Scheduled and Previously Recorded screens.
> > > > Think of it as a variation on duplicate checking. That's why it's
> > > > historically been grouped with the duplicate checking options.
> > > >
> > > > The "New episode" filter came later and is truly a filter. When used,
> > > > the scheduler won't match old programs at all and they won't show up
> > > > in View Scheduled and Previously Recorded. When the original new
> > > > episode and identifiable filters were added, they were hard coded and
> > > > were shoehorned in with the duplicate checking options. The filters
> > > > were split out from the duplicate checking options like they should
> > > > have been all along when we added the new, extensible filters.
> > > >
> > > > We could probably do away with the "Record New Episodes Only" option,
> > > > but I suspect there are a lot of users who like seeing the repeats
> > > > explicitly marked as such. I'm probably in that group since I still
> > > > tend to use it instead of a filter.
> > >
> > > What happens when "Record New Episodes Only" AND "New Episode" are both selected?
> >
> > "Record New Episodes Only" is irrelevant in that case because the
> > scheduler will never see any old episodes to mark as repeats.
> >
> > David
> 
> So if I was so motivated, I could go through and change all my
> "Record New Episodes Only" to "Look for duplicates in previous and
> current recordings" which I believe is the default dupe scope and
> then apply the "new episode" filter to them and achieve the same
> results of what will be recorded?  With the downside (I'm on the
> fence if it's a downside or not) being that episodes I've already
> recorded will not show up in various views as "already recorded".

Yes.

David

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