[mythtv-users] watchlist question - "not the earliest episode"

[John P Poet]

On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 3:58 PM, Bruce Markey <bjm at lvcm.com> wrote:
> First, thank you for your feedback. Here's another pile of
>  Watch List philosophy and implementation....
>
>  James Orr wrote:
>  > On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 8:56 PM, James Orr <james.orr7 at gmail.com
>  > <mailto:james.orr7 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>  >     On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 8:05 PM, Bruce Markey <bjm at lvcm.com
>  >     <mailto:bjm at lvcm.com>> wrote:
>  ...
>  >     In the meantime, could you go to TV- Settings->Playback page
>  >     "View Recordings (4/8)" and try setting "Episode sort ordering"
>  >     back to the default "Sort all sub-titles/multi-titles Descending"?
>  ...
>  > That was it. Works fine on the default (not sure how that got
>  > changed in the first place), thanks.
>  >
>  >
>  > OK, now I remember. I never understood why the default is to sort it so
>  > the new stuff is at the top. Makes no sense to me at all. Hope you can
>  > fix that soon, very annoying having everything backwards.

<snip>

>  Possibly what you want is ""Sort sub-titles Ascending,
>  multi-titles Descending". This would put oldest "Stargate:
>  Atlantis" at the top of the Stargate list but put the newest
>  recordings at the top of the All Programs list.

Which is exactly the way I use it.

<snip>

Great informative post, as usual, Bruce.


John
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