Re: [mythtv-users] Use of the Rerun flag?
Michael Freeman wrote: yeah...i just noticed it didn't flag an episode of american dad as a rerun (it had shown on fox before, but not on adult swim)... From XMLTV DTD (TMS seems to use the same definition for determining previously shown): - !-- When and where the programme was last shown, if known. Normally in TV listings 'repeat' means 'previously shown on this channel', but if you don't know what channel the old screening was on (but do know that it happened) then you can omit the 'channel' attribute. Similarly you can omit the 'start' attribute if you don't know when the previous transmission was (though you can of course give just the year, etc.). The absence of this element does not say for certain that the programme is brand new and has never been screened anywhere before. -- !ELEMENT previously-shown EMPTY !ATTLIST previously-shown start CDATA #IMPLIED channel CDATA #IMPLIED - See http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/166447#166447 for some discussion of using this (under the section responding to The specific, plausable case I gave was trying to recording first runs ). However, I'm of the opinion that getting them into the database is a better approach. I like having a list of everything I've watched because after a while, I can't remember (maybe I'm just much older than you)... I'd even like to see an option in MythWeb to allow me to add programs to previously recorded without first creating a recording rule (i.e. for putting movies in the database). Maybe I'll play with this after Chris finishes his big rewrite... Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Use of the Rerun flag?
yeah...i just noticed it didn't flag an episode of american dad as a rerun (it had shown on fox before, but not on adult swim)... On 12/10/05, John Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/9/05, Michael Freeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] This ought to be considered...the XMLTV feed has a rerun flag (the listings say when something is a rerun)...so why isn't there an option to Record only new episodes of this show? Be carefull about that rerun flag. I've seen it set and even seen the original Air Date displayed in mythweb for shows that were not even on TV as of the reported original air date. ___mythtv-users mailing listmythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Use of the Rerun flag?
This is already in Myth and I spent sometime looking for it (even created a couple of custom rules to do this) but it's available in the Scheduling options - Record new episodes only (The other options on that menu are related to matching duplicates). Dejan Michael Freeman wrote: I was wondering if anyone had a trick to exclude reruns (and, no, manually telling mythtv to never record a certain episode again isn't what I'm looking for...too many episodes of too many shows). I really don't want to record reruns or have to manually check what's airing in my various recording timeslots...sometimes they show reruns there and sometimes they don't. This ought to be considered...the XMLTV feed has a rerun flag (the listings say when something is a rerun)...so why isn't there an option to Record only new episodes of this show? One really annoying example is Stargate...with SciFi's multimonth break in the middle of the season, I can end up wasting a lot of diskspace on episodes I already have archived elsewhere. (Disclaimer: if someone has a source of mythbackend documentation, I'll take a shot at making a patch that does this myself) ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
