Joseph A. Caputo wrote: ...
In general, it's rather unreasonable to expect users to go through their entire recording schedule looking for these scenarios, especially when
It's very reasonable. You only need to look at today becaue the the listing update tomorrow may change things. I may see things a couple days ahead and tweak them but I don't fret too much until the day comes. There are lots of things that may need attention besides deciding what to do about these small overlaps and I know that I can set rules to normally do what I want and can tweak things to match what I'm thinking that the system can't possibly know until I tell it.
you consider that many of the scheduled recordings might be "record at any time" or other such non-time-specific rules. In such a case, changing the recording schedule would change it for the entire rule, rather than just that instance.
This is precisely what overrides are for. You can always modify a single showing without affecting the recurring rule.
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. 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. http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-11.html#ss11.7 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. -- bjm _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
