[mythtv] [mythtv-commits] Ticket #2320: Add a 'watched' flag to recordings

Stuart Morgan stuart at tase.co.uk
Wed Sep 6 07:38:20 UTC 2006


On Wednesday 06 September 2006 01:11, MythTV wrote:
> #2320: Add a 'watched' flag to recordings
>
>  I'm not sure that 5 minutes from the end is a good switch for 'watched'
>  here in Aus.  It might work if it took the soft-padding into account -
>  i.e. 5 minutes from the scheduled end of the program is 'watched', not 5
>  minutes from the end of the recording.  On my box, the recordings end 20
>  minutes after the scheduled end of the program.

It currently uses 10 minutes from the scheduled end of the recording 
(accounting for padding).

However the 10 minute figure and the calculation of that threshold may need 
some work. As it currently stands it won't work on recordings transcoded with 
a cutlist, I've already got ideas to handle it more reliably.

10 minutes might be a little too much for 20 minute recordings, but maybe not 
enough for films which have long credits and a large break to the next 
programme. I'm going to play with a sliding scale - unfortunately a straight 
percentage won't work.

One thing I can guarantee is that the automatic detection of a 'watched' 
status will never work 100% of the time. When it doesn't work the fallback 
will be that they can be flagged manually.
-- 
Stuart Morgan


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