[mythtv] Suggested change in oldrecord behaviour

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 07:00:07PM +0100, Ed Wildgoose wrote:

> Index: programs/mythbackend/scheduler.cpp
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /var/lib/mythcvs/mythtv/programs/mythbackend/scheduler.cpp,v
> retrieving revision 1.96
> diff -u -r1.96 scheduler.cpp
> --- programs/mythbackend/scheduler.cpp  13 Apr 2004 17:25:10 -0000      1.96
> +++ programs/mythbackend/scheduler.cpp  3 May 2004 17:37:25 -0000
> @@ -1186,6 +1186,7 @@
> " LEFT JOIN oldrecorded ON "
> "  ( "
> "    oldrecorded.title IS NOT NULL AND oldrecorded.title <> '' AND 
> program.title = oldrecorded.title "
> +"     AND record.type NOT IN (1,6)" //ignore old recorded for 

Please don't hardcode these values.

Anyway, the scheduler already ignores the duplicate flag for kSingleRecord.

> Just to be clear why this would be useful (for me).  I setup stuff like 
> the Simpsons, and Friends and other stuff to record so that I have an 
> episode or two kicking around for when I am bored.  However, they record 
> far quicker than I can watch them, and then none of the episodes 
> re-record when they re-run them a few weeks later, regardless of whether 
> I watched them or not.  I would find it more useful if it actually 
> *knew* which ones I had seen, and didn't re-record only those ones...

There has been talk about this, but so far no one has suggested a good way
to detect when the user has finished watching a recording, as opposed to
stopping before the end.  Requiring that the user explicitly mark a show as
'watched' seems rather inconvenient.

-- 
 - mdz