On Thursday 16 June 2005 15:38, Bruce Markey wrote: > Joseph A. Caputo wrote: > > IMHO, a better solution would be to add an option to the Conflict > > Resolution screen; something like "Allow recording of > > non-conflicting > > portion only". An override like that would affect only that > > particular > > showing, and would be much easier to remedy than editing the > > recording > > schedule (and possibly remembering to change it back again later). > > Joesph, I know you've been here a long time and are one of the most > knowledgeable users and regularly give some of the best, correct and > helpful answers. I can't accept that you didn't know that overrides > have existed for a year or two =). I must be misreading this.
Thanks... I think :-) To be honest, I knew about overrides but I wasn't fully aware of the UI to enter them manually. I'd actually kind of forgotten about them, as I don't have much use for overrides myself, having a 2-tuner system and almost *never* having a conflict that isn't automatically resolved by the scheduler (and I usually don't care if it decides to record a later showing). Well, at least that was the case until I recently installed TVWish, which filled up my recording schedule quite nicely... as if I didn't have more than I could watch before :-) But, I digress... > > As far as automatically generating an override, first, I agree with > Isaac (and gigem's code) that I'd rather have the scheduler get a > complete later showing that a partial now. If I know that I want the > partial recording now, I can tell the system how to do that. I'm not suggesting that the schedular automatically record a partial... all I'm suggesting is (I think...) that a button be added to the Conflict Resolution screen that allows the user to instantly add an override that results in a partial recording. A real enhancement (and a real trick) would be getting the override to be conditional... that is, if a future run of the scheduler determines that the original conflict is gone (maybe I decided not to record the other overlapping program, or the lineup changed), then the 'partial' override would be silently disregarded. > > http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-11.html#ss11.7 Wow, I just realized how long it's been since I looked at any of the docs... they're looking pretty nice these days! Kudos to RK! > > If I still what to re-record the full program later, I can tell the > system to do that too. > > If there is an overlap that results in a conflict (if it was really > important to me, I'd buy a sixth card ;-) the system can't know if > I'd prefer to chop off the end of one thing or the beginning of the > other. Someone mentioned that ABC scheduled 2 minutes off the hour > on Wednesday, I don't see that here for last night or next week but > all a care about on Wednesday is that I don't miss a minute of Beauty > and the Geek. If the scheduler decided for me that it should cutoff > the first two minutes for some ABC show, I'd be pissed. Ah, the first 2 minutes is usually just a recap of the previous week... now, if I lost the *last* 2 minutes when they show the next week's previews, *then* I'd be pissed :-) Cheers, JAC _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users