[mythtv-users] Original Air Date...

[Nate Crosno]

Josh wrote:
> I have my Recordings list sort by the original air date for an 
> episode... does anyone know of a way to actually have the original air 
> date of a show post on the recording details? I've been up for over a 
> year now and if I have simply overlooked it somewhere I'll be shocked.
> 

I had to edit the "ui.xml" for my theme. I found the info somewhere online, but 
forgot where.  Here is a snip from my file. I am using 'mythcenter wide' and 
this shows the date (without year, unfortunately) down in the description area. 
If memory serves, I think it took editing a CPP file and recompiling in order 
to change the date format to include the year.  It has not been high enough on 
the priority list to track down.  I also edited it to show the file size, which 
is a quick way to tell if the file has been transcoded yet.

     <container name="program_info_play">
       <context>0</context>
       <area>64,391,1152,293</area>
       <textarea name="title" draworder="6">
         <area>0,0,992,50</area>
         <altarea>0,0,1152,50</altarea>
         <font>title</font>
       </textarea>
       <textarea name="channel" draworder="6">
         <area>0,50,160,40</area>
         <font>info</font>
       </textarea>
       <textarea name="timedate" draworder="6">
         <area>200,50,792,40</area>
         <altarea>200,40,952,40</altarea>
         <font>info</font>
       </textarea>
       <textarea name="subdescr" draworder="6">
         <area>0,90,1152,164</area>
         <font>info</font>
         <multiline>yes</multiline>
         <value>%SUBTITLE|"|"
%%STARS%%DESCRIPTION%

Original Air Date: %SHORTORIGINALAIRDATE%     Filesize: %FILESIZE_STR% </value>
       </textarea>