[mythtv-users] Watch Recordings scrolling and update

[R. G. Newbury]

On 08/20/2015 04:01 PM, John P Poet wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 1:38 PM R. G. Newbury <newbury at mandamus.org
> <mailto:newbury at mandamus.org>> wrote:
>
>     On 08/20/2015 12:17 PM, Hika van den Hoven wrote:
>
>      >> This may also be a MythCenter(-Wide) artifact, but I have
>     noticed that
>      >> when a series is selected in the left column, the individual
>     shows are
>      >> NOT sorted in date order. Once upon a time, the individual shows
>     were
>      >> dated ordered, oldest at the top. Now they are not. The 'old'
>     version
>      >> was at least as of MythCenter-Wide 1.1 or so. Off the top of my
>     head, I
>      >> think the new (dis-ordered) version is 1.7.
>      >
>      > Those are settings on page 4, 5 and 6 of Video -> View recordings
>
>     I don't know where you are finding that. I cannot find anywhere in
>     mythfrontend or mythtv-setup where mythcenter-wide has a multi-page
>     settings group starting with 'Video' in either Default or Classic
>     appearance settings.
>
>     Full path please, with full description of setup settings, please.
>
>     To re-iterate: when on 'ALL RECORDINGS' in the left pane, the shows are
>     listed oldest first, But when on a series choice (Big Bang Theory etc),
>     the shows in the right pane are NOT oldest first.
>
>
> The wording is a little confusing.  On page 4 of Setup->Video->Playback
> you will see "Episode sort orderings" and the options are:
>    1. Sort all sub-titles/multi-titles Ascending
>    2. Sort all sub-titles/multi-titles Descending
>    3. Sort sub-titles Descending, multi-titles Ascending.
>    4. Sort sub-titles Ascending, multi-titles Descending.
>
> I use option 4.  The default is option 1.
>
> Below that you will see "Sort Episodes" which only affect the
> "sub-titles", with the options:
>    1. Record date
>    2. Season/Episode
>    3. Original air date.
>    4. Program ID
>
> The mult-titles (group list) is always sorted by record date.
>
> Personally, I would like to change this to be three settings.
>     1. Group list  (Ascending/Descending)
>     2. Episode list (Ascending/Descending)
>     3. Episode list sort type (Record date, Season/Episode, Original air
> date, Program ID)
>
> It also would be nice to have the "Episode list sort type" be available
> as part of the pop up menu on the "Watch Recordings" screen.
>
> John

I have Episode ordering set to 'record date' here on the 'test' box. And 
I am quite sure that it is set that way at home. But I think that the 
Alpha/priority setting on page 6 is over-ridimg.

And YES, three distinct settings would be better.

Geoff