On 9/8/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jay R. Ashworth</b> <<a href="mailto:jra@baylink.com">jra@baylink.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 10:50:01AM -0700, Bruce Markey wrote:<br><snip><br>> The difference is whether or not showings of old episodes are<br>> included in the recording list. Which new episodes will record<br>
> will be exactly the same for either of these options.<br><br>> 'New episodes only' matches all the showings for the rule then<br>> in the 'place' phase, marks the showings that are more than 14<br>
> days past their original air date as "r". 'Exclude old episodes'<br>> doesn't match for any of the showings more than 14 days old<br>> so these are never clutter in the recording list. Both of these
<br>> approaches are valid and may or may not be what the user expects<br>> to see.<br><br>> For example, "Saturday Night Live" is on once a week on NBC but more<br>> often than not, they are repeats. I use 'New episodes only' so that
<br>> repeats are listed marked as "r". I can look at the description and<br>> decide if I want to re-record it if I'd like.<br><br>> "Mythbusters" has two showings of one recent episode "Mythbusters
<br>> Revealed" which I've already recorded but there are 49 showings of<br>> "Mythbusters" episodes in my listings. I don't want to have about<br>> fifty "Mythbusters" in my list all the time when I won't consider
<br>> recording these. By using 'Exclude old episodes' the list only<br>> includes the two showings of the new episode.<br><br>> Further, because the scheduler will only consider new episodes with<br>> either of these options, I can go to the 'Previously Recorded' page in
<br>> mythfrontend and remove all the old episodes for "Mythbusters" rather<br>> than accumulating hundreds of these over the years.<br>><br>> As I said, either of these are valid and may be what you want but
<br>> for each of them, only the showings for new episodes are eligible to<br>> record and the same showings will be scheduled if you use one or the<br>> other of these options.<br><br>I apologize, Bruce; I was hoping that by the end of your message I'd be
<br>able to pry out the difference in meaning between new/old. is/isn't<br>repeat, and we've recorded it/we haven't, but I couldn't *quite* do it.<br><br>"New episodes only" and "exclude repeats" are *separate* checkboxes,
<br>right? (I'm not near my machine.)<br><br>"Exclude repeats" is pretty clear: if the R flag is on the listing<br>record, skip it.<br><br>But what, exactly, is the definition of "New episodes only"? "Ones
<br>we've never recorded *here* before"? (This isn't idle query; I want to<br>get the right answer into the User's Manual ... where I see that it is<br>not, at the moment.<br><br>Cheers,<br>-- jra<br></blockquote>
</div><br>Jay,<br><br>I think I get it. "New episodes only" makes a list of all candidates that <br>otherwise match the rule. It **later** marks those that first aired > 14 days<br>ago as repeats by showing them in the list with "r". Those without "r" are
<br>potential recordings, depending on scheduling priorities and conflict resolution.<br>OTOH, "'Exclude old episodes" strips the old episodes out when making the <br>list of candidates up in the first place and the user won't even know they're
<br>available for overriding the rule and recording anyway.<br><br>Does that help? Bruce- Am I still barking up the wrong tree?<br><br>Craig.<br>