<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Oct 8, 2008, at 1:02 PM, Johnny Russ wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 2:52 PM, Michael T. Dean <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mtdean@thirdcontact.com" target="_blank">mtdean@thirdcontact.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> On 10/08/2008 02:24 PM, Johnny Russ wrote:<br> >> If I want to watch an episode and know I want to watch another after,<br> >> I go to that show's folder and pick the ones I want to see. Since I<br> >> sort my original air date, it's easy to figure out which one is "next"<br> >> for me.<br> > This is problematic for people who keep episodes around after they have<br> > watched them. If you keep a whole season or several seasons, then it is more<br> > difficult to narrow down the next unwatched episode. The watch list fixes<br> > this by clearing out all of the watched episodes and all but the oldest<br> > unwatched episode.<br> ><br> <br> Which is why there's a sort-by-original-airdate option for the Watch<br> Recordings screen. Assuming you have good listings data (I know that<br> Schedules Direct does, FWIW), it works great.<br> <br> </blockquote></div><br>I realize you can sort them, but you still have the issue of scrolling a lot of episodes and remembering which one you watched already. This really isn't a big deal. There is a setting in TV Settings -> Playback (page 6) under the watch list settings for the number of days to exclude and episode. It won't let you set it below 1 day. It would nice if the defaulted to 0. At a minimum it should be allowed to be set to 0. However, the only way to set it to 0 is by going in and doing it manually. I am know there are lots of ways of doing things for all of our differing methods of using mythtv. This seems to seems to bea case where a simple adjustment could accommodate a lot of users.<br> </div></blockquote><br></div><div>I think this is what you want:</div><div><br></div><div><div>Index: globalsettings.cpp</div><div>===================================================================</div><div>--- globalsettings.cpp<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>(revision 18611)</div><div>+++ globalsettings.cpp<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>(working copy)</div><div>@@ -3715,7 +3715,7 @@</div><div> </div><div> static HostSpinBox *PlaybackWLBlackOut()</div><div> {</div><div>- HostSpinBox *gs = new HostSpinBox("PlaybackWLBlackOut", 1, 5, 1);</div><div>+ HostSpinBox *gs = new HostSpinBox("PlaybackWLBlackOut", 0, 5, 1);</div><div> gs->setLabel(QObject::tr("Days to exclude weekly episodes after delete"));</div><div> gs->setValue(2);</div><div> gs->setHelpText(QObject::tr("When an episode is deleted or marked as "</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>(untested since I don't care all that much, but it was easier than to keep reading about this)</div><div><br></div><div>If it works for you, submit it as a patch and see if other people feel the same way you do.</div><div><br></div></div><br></body></html>