[mythtv-users] Watch Recordings doesn't list size of single recording

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi John,

Thursday, December 10, 2015, 4:06:33 AM, you wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 5:47 PM Jerome Yuzyk <jerome at supernet.ab.ca> wrote:

>> On Wednesday, December 09, 2015 06:06:49 PM John P Poet wrote:
>>
>> > On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 9:47 AM Daryl McDonald <darylangela at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> >
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>> > > On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 6:55 PM, Jerome Yuzyk <jerome at supernet.ab.ca>
>>
>> > > wrote:
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>> > >
>>
>> > >>
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>> > >> Curious about an oddity I just noticed in 0.27.4 Watch Recordings
>> using
>>
>> > >> the MythCenter-Wide theme.
>>
>> > >>
>>
>> > >> As I scroll through the master (left list) there is a comment below
>> the
>>
>> > >> Show Title like
>>
>> > >>
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>> > >> "There are 5 recordings in this display group, which consume 6.60GB"
>>
>> > >>
>>
>> > >> Except when there's only 1 recording, like a movie:
>>
>> > >>
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>> > >> "There is 1 recording in this display group"
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>> > >>
>>
>> > >> Why special-case this comment and not show the size of that file?
>>
>> > >>
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>> >
>>
>> > Remove the Delete Recordings screen.
>>
>> >
>>
>> > This screen was nearly functionally identical to the Watch Recordings
>>
>> > screen. The primary differences between the two were the default sorting
>>
>> > order and whether the default SELECT action deleted or played the
>> currently
>>
>> > selected recording. The one, small, hard-coded feature of Delete
>> Recording
>>
>> > to display the total disk space used by a group has been added to Watch
>>
>> > Recordings. The remaining difference is the displayed information and
>> that
>>
>> > is controlled by the theme. Of the included themes, only MythCenter-wide
>>
>> > had specail support for Delete Recordings. For it, the total disk usage
>>
>> > bar-graph has been added to Watch Recordings.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks for that insight. I don't have a bar graph. I looked into
>> playback.cpp and don't understand why the if{} is there. Does the code
>> inside break if there's only 1 recording
>>

> My guess is that Daryl is correct, and that it was considered redundant
> information.

> John

I think the split has to do with language 1 recording or multiple
recordings. And that as Daryl and John say they didn't see the the need
to add up one single recording to a total.

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  Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com

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