On Tuesday 22 Nov 2005 21:52, Michael T. Dean wrote: > I'll leave this for someone else. It sounds like--since it only > recorded the first 45 minutes of the 2-hour show--even though you pushed > record during LiveTV it wasn't actually recording, so when you left > LiveTV (or when you changed channel) at the 45-minute point, you stopped > recording it. Does that sound like what happened (leaving LiveTV or > changing channels at the 45-minute point)?
I honestly can't be sure. I thought I left after only watching 5 minutes and it *seemed* to still be recording when I then switched to the Watch Recordings screen. I can do some experimenting tomorrow so there is more information to work with. > I completely agree. However, there is no delete and re-record. There > is a delete and *allow* re-record... Aha .. well I had overlooked that. Probably because I've always used *allow re-record* on recordings with "Any time/Any Channel" rules. Allow re-record implies that you want it re-recorded thus actively creating a schedule to rerecord would not be unexpected behaviour. > So, it should create a rule for you. What recording profile? LiveTV, > the profile it used for the one you just deleted? Is that really what > you want? Well the default profile seems sensible - with the option to change. > What type of recording rule? A find once, a find on this channel, a > record all on any channel, a record all on this channel, a daily or > weekly timeslot... If we do a find once (because that's probably close > enough to the LiveTV single recording), Myth may record a different > episode of a series than the one you just deleted--which would result in > a flurry of "it doesn't work" e-mails. Find once with subtitle/description information wouldn't record the wrong episode. > What priority? The LiveTV recording you just deleted was very > high-priority (higher than the highest priority). What recording > group? What duplicate check method? What start-early and end-late > settings? What ... Again defaults. You can always modify recording schedules later or even popup a scheduling dialogue when a user requests a re-record on a show (assuming that show isn't covered by a pre-existing schedule such as an "Any time/channel"). <snip> > So, in summary, there are a lot more issues involved with just making a > new recording rule because I said, "re-record" than you may have > considered. That's why it's "delete and allow re-record" instead of > "delete and re-record"--re-recording the show is allowed, so it will be > re-recorded /when/ you decide to create a recording rule for it. Not so many issues. If you want to re-record something it is safe to assume that means a find once on any channel rule. If a unique identifier such as subtitle or description is not available then it will lead to some mistakes but nothing that isn't already seen with everyday scheduling. > That being said, it's possible that some translations may not be this > "grammatically precise," and MythWeb definitely says, "Delete + > Rerecord", but it's the same functionality just with an "abbreviated" > wording due to space constraints. Even though the current wording is grammatically precise, it is not user-friendly. You would only use "allow re-record" on recordings you wanted re-recording - so not creating that new schedule rule there and then is illogical. -- Stuart Morgan _______________________________________________ mythtv-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-dev
