On 11/19/05, Bruce Markey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael T. Dean wrote: > > George Nassas wrote: > > > >> On 19-Nov-05, at 8:20 PM, Chad wrote: > >> > >>> I know there is an option for 'custom record' to just set a channel, > >>> and a time to start and end, however, it will show up as a big block > >>> of "custom" instead of breaking it up like it is, in the 30 > >> > >> Couldn't you do a custom record specifying only the channel? That > >> would match all shows minus duplicates. Someone asked a similar > >> question a few months ago and there was another way to do it but I > >> forget what it was. Bruce Markey posted the exhaustive answer. > > > > http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/153707?nohighlight=1#153707 > > Update to that. I now keep this handy in my record rules: > > Rule Nane: Breaking News > > channel.callsign = 'CNN' > AND program.starttime < '2005-10-24 19:00:00' > > Obviously, it's past Oct 24th but if some major event happens I > can go to Custom Record, "Edit Rule: Breaking News", Set the date > to tomorrow or the next day, click Record then Save. It will start > recording everything on CNN until 7pm on the date I chose and I > can change the date or time again later depending on how the news > unfolds. > > For this rule I've set low priority, Don't match duplicates, Low > Quality profile to save space (talking heads and video phones), > "News" recording group, and don't flag commercials (if CNN is > running commercials, it isn't very big news =). By keeping this > rule I don't have to remember to set all these options again. I > just change the date, save and it's off and running. > > -- bjm > _______________________________________________
Thank you both :) _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
