[mythtv] [mythtv-commits] Ticket #6445: "Film search" could be better

[John P Poet]

On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 5:13 PM, MythTV <mythtv at cvs.mythtv.org> wrote:
> #6445: "Film search" could be better
> ------------------------------+---------------------------------------------
>  Reporter:  anonymous         |       Owner:  ijr
>     Type:  enhancement       |      Status:  new
>  Priority:  minor             |   Milestone:  unknown
> Component:  MythTV - General  |     Version:  head
>  Severity:  medium            |     Mlocked:  0
> ------------------------------+---------------------------------------------
>  Hello,
>
>  Here's a great idea for the film search dialog.
>
>  Currently it's a big list of programs - sort of like the upcoming
>  recordings dialog, but listing only programs that are films.  I have
>  satellite and there are many regional variations between channels - so I
>  have, say, about 20 BBC One's, and this gets confusing seeing a page full
>  of films that are exactly the same.  If the film is repeated a few times
>  in the week (Film 4 does this a lot) you get loads of entries for
>  essentially the same film.
>
>  How about making it more like the program finder dialog?  It can list the
>  upcoming films (that haven't started yet) in alphabetical order.  However
>  because there are so many remakes and there are times different channels
>  will show different versions, there needs to be a sub-list (this is where
>  it looks like Program Finder) which lists all the showings, and the
>  descriptions at the bottom.
>
>  eg:
>
>  < Antz >==================/ BBC 1 CI            Saturday 13:00
>    Arachnaphobia           | BBC 1 E Mids        Saturday 13:00
>                            | BBC HD              Sunday   14:00
>
>  Hope that makes sense.

I was going to tell you to hit "2" while in Manage Recordings ->
Schedule Recordings -> Search List -> Movies, but that does not
actually seem to work.  I am not sure why.

Pressing "2" while in the other Search List  options re-sorts the list
by title, and removes dupes.  To find out when and where a show is
going to air, you can then hit O (or whatever key you have "upcoming
episodes" bound to.  This works really well for distilling down the
upcoming schedule on a specific channel, for example.


John
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