[mythtv-users] sharing with the wife...

[Steven Adeff]

On 5/6/06, Peter Schachte <schachte at csse.unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
> On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 09:27:42PM +0200, Ronald Pijnacker wrote:
> > My wife and I take a different approach to this. Shows that we both
> > want to watch are recorded in a "Shared" group. After either of us
> > has watched it, we move it to the other's group. Whatever you watch
> > from your own group can be safely deleted.
>
> Very sensible for a couple, but it really doesn't scale to a larger
> family.  It takes 2^n-1 recording groups if there are n TV-watchers in
> the house.  And each watcher has to look in half of the groups to find
> all the programs they want to watch.  You really need something that
> tags each program with a *set* of watchers, as the request in the wiki
> suggests.
>
> I think something along those lines was included in Google Summer of
> Code list of projects, so maybe someone will work on this soon.


Or you could just get a bigger recordings drive so that it takes
longer for shows to expire. Then all someone has to do is turn off
expire for a show thats about to expire that they haven't watched.

--
Steve
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