[mythtv] Recording Group [was: mythtv commits]

[Chris Pinkham]

> > So I could throw all my home improvement type shows into a "Home Improvement"
> > group, movies into "Movies", my wife's TLC shows into Auto-Expire, etc..
> 
> Your wife must really like Junkyard Wars or do they have other
> shows? I wouldn't know, I don't even know the channel number ;-).

Isn't it TLC that has all the "Clean Sweep", "Trading Spaces", etc. on it?
I don't even know the channel number anymore since everything is prerecorded.
Junkyard Wars is mine as is Monster Garage but she does like the occasional
Monster House episode.

> What I'd envision would be group names in the left hand column
> of the playbackbox screen similar to "All Programs". List all
> the groups before the alpha list of titles.

Yeah, I was thinking something like this could be used for the "All Groups"
screen.

> > Basically talking about adding a "recordinggroups" table with a groupname
> > and groupid.  Then add a groupid to record and recorded.  Then a way to
> > toggle what group was being viewed on the playbackbox screen and a way to
> > move a recording to another group from playbackbox as well.
> 
> I like it. On a project I was involved with before finding
> myth, we were thinking about "folders". The same kinds of
> subset groupings and also different sort orders. You could
> have a folder "Auto-Expire" sorted with the next to expire at

I think the playbackbox screen core could be reused in several ways like
this.  Kinda of like the scheduled recordings screen has several
'modes' right now.

> My most recent brainstorm from about a week ago is "What's New".
> MythTV doesn't have a way to highlight specials or series

I ditto Isaac's "Very Cool Idea" on this one.  Saves me from having to
go browse Mythweb's Movie listing page also.

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Chris