On Mon, 13 Dec 2004, Bruce Markey wrote: > Donavan Stanley wrote: > > On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 15:01:13 -0800, Bruce Markey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>Brad Templeton wrote: > >> > >> > >>As it stands now, myth's "Record new episodes only" generally > >>sees generic episodes as out of date and marks then as repeats. > > > > > > I'm not sure where you got that idea... > > >From the source code ;-), actual experience, and pointing it out > to you in a previous discussion as something you may want to > consider. > > > The new episode only recording > > doesn't care if it's a generic epsiode or not. The only thing it > > cares about is the previously shown flag and/or the orginal air date. > > Generic episodes often have the premier date of the series in > the original air date field. Consequently, they get marked as > previouslyshown. Let's look at the poster child: > > mysql> select > title,description,seriesid,programid,originalairdate,previouslyshown from > program where programid = 'SH2930530000' limit 1\G > *************************** 1. row *************************** > title: The Daily Show With Jon Stewart > description: A humorous slant on top news stories. > seriesid: SH293053 > programid: SH2930530000 > originalairdate: 1999-01-11 > previouslyshown: 1 > 1 row in set (0.00 sec) > > I personally believe that often where people think they want new > episodes only, what they really want is to not record all those > unidentified episodes over and over again and only want to record > when there is a new unique description. As it stands, your new > episode feature accomplishes this but doesn't allow recording > one each of older unique episodes. > > I have been considering adding another dupin for no generics. For > example, The Sundance Channel is running a series of short > documentaries under the title "First Amendment Project". > There are several showings of each part but they've also had > many generic listings (fewer now than the past few weeks). I don't > care about the air dates and I don't want to record every single > unidentified episode. I just want to record one each of the > identified episodes. I'm doing this with a custom record for now. > I'm not sure if it would be worthwhile to add a dupin for this > because suspect that most people would see it as more confusing > than helpful. > > -- bjm
Bruce, Since you and Donavan are discussing this, I am hoping that you will consider another plea I made here: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/92650?#92650 This also has to do with duplicate detection. Thanks, John
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