[mythtv-users] upcoming movies with *** or more?

[Bruce Markey]

Dan Christensen wrote:
> I like the fact that mythfrontend and mythweb allow you to see a list
> of the upcoming movies, and select some for recording.  But the list
> is pretty long, and I was wondering if there was a way to limit the
> list to movies with at least a certain number of stars.  I see that
> the stars rating is stored as a separate field in the database, so
> I was hoping this would be an easy thing to search on.

Yes. In Search Lists->Movies the views are based on stats. If you
use the PREVVIEW and NEXTVIEW (Home and End by default) it cycles
through All. 4 stars, At least 3 1/2 stars, At least 3 stars and
At least 2 stars. I look at the 4 star list all the time. Most
of the search pages have views. The New Titles page has views for
Movies, Series and Specials which are in your listings for the
first time. All the Search Words pages allow you to cycle through
each of your stored keywords by simply pressing Home and End.

> A related question is whether it is possible to automatically record
> all movies with at least a certain number of stars.  Might be a nice
> feature to have...

You can do this and much more with the new Custom Record feature.
One of the examples provided is Sci-fi B-movies which searchs
for and records one each of movies that are category Science
fiction with 2 stars or less and a release date before 1970.

--  bjm