That's exactly the data I was talking about (original air date). I'm guessing that's how other DVR applications have options such as "Record New Episodes Only", etc.
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 4:17 PM, VDR User <user....@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 12:42 PM, John Klimek <jkli...@gmail.com> wrote: >> However, my original question was about unaired/new episodes. For >> example, I'd like to record new episodes of "The Simpsons" but I don't >> want an episode unless it's never been aired before. It sounds like >> the "Don't allow repeats" option is just to check if it's been >> recorded which isn't too useful in my situation. Suppose an episode >> hasn't aired for several months? It's not a "new" episode but just an >> old one that hasn't aired in a while so I would want to skip that >> recording. > > I would like this option also and iirc there's actually a flag that > specifies a new episode. I know at least some providers supply an > "original air date" as well which could be compared against the > current date if the "new" flag isn't present. It would be nice to set > a timer for a show, tell it you want _all_ new episodes, and it's > smart enough to detect schedule changes and so on. So basically you > could record an entire series (over all seasons) if you wanted to and > only need to set a timer once and forget about it. > > It sucks to find out there's been a schedule only after you've missed > some episodes, or have to frequently clean out a cache of dupes. > > _______________________________________________ > vdr mailing list > vdr@linuxtv.org > http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr > _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
