[mythtv-users] better way to record / feature req

[Aran Cox]

Quick question: when the CVS code deletes a show because you set keep X
episodes, does it delete it from oldrecorded as well, so it will catch
it again?  I've wanted an auto-delete feature of some sort for a while
but I always figured that to be useful an auto-delete function (no
matter how you configure it) would have to remove it from oldrecorded
too.

I agree with Tako here, the global adjustments for start/end time
probably aren't good enough for many users.  I rarely miss anything due
to start/end time differences because most channels generously pad their
shows with commercials. However, I can see where it would be required
when dealing with channels that refuse to keep decent time.  



On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 01:00, Christian Hack wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org 
> > [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Tom Howard
> > Sent: Friday, 1 August 2003 3:45 PM
> > To: mythtv-users at mythtv.org
> > Subject: [mythtv-users] better way to record / feature req
> > 
> > 
> > Forgive te poor quality, Im doing this at work and all I have here is 
> > mspaint.  anyway, the basic idea is that when you get to the record 
> > screen, it allows you to change the time to start recording, 
> > and the time 
> > to stop recording (this would make it easy to adjust the 
> > start-stop times 
> > on an individual basis).  The record options, this is what we 
> > currently 
> > have.  Save latest, how many episodes to save.  1, 2, 3, 4, 
> > 5, 2 days, 3, 
> > days, 1 week, All Episodes.  For example, say you want to 
> > record every 
> > episode of Seinfield on every channel.  Thats ~4 a day.  Now 
> > say you dont 
> > want to fill up your HD with just seinfield, but you do like 
> > to keep a 
> > few episodes around to watch.  So you might set it to 'save 
> > the latest 4 
> > episodes'.  This would of course automatically delete a 
> > previous episode 
> > just before it begins the latest recording.  The idea is to 
> > give the user 
> > complete control, from one screen, over all aspects of a recording. 
> > Just my $0.37, I may be out of line.
> > 
> 
> CVS does the "keep only x episodes part" and will only remove them when
> drive space gets below a configurable level. It doesn't support keep the
> last x days episodes though. IMO "keep x episodes" is good enough. 
> 
> As for changing the record start and stop times, you are limited to a
> pre and post additional recording on every recording. I believe that's
> good enough.
> 
> CH
> 
> 
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