Automatic Recording Group Playback

[anonymous]

I record my recordings to several Recording Groups. A Recording Group for my 3 year old son contains many recording from 5-10 minutes long and about 10-15 recordings a day. The series are constraint to allow a maximum of 2 recordings, overwriting older ones. My son looks 4 times a day for about 20 minutes to an hour. Making several playlists a day is tedious job.

The existing Menu-option "Add this Group to Playlist" at the Recording Group is in my Opinion a useless option, as I don't think someone wil select all recordings starting always with the oldest ones.

What I would like is something what I named "Automatic Recording Group Playback": The user can pick a recording from a recording group, which is configured for "Automatic Playlist Playback". After the playback finishes a bookmark is set (see my sidenote below) and the next recording (newer date or respecting the defined sorting) is automatically shown. The bookmark functions like a marker identifying the user which recordings have been seen and the user can use to start a new playback session.

Sidenote: mythtv lacks an Icon identifying a recording has been seen. The bookmark can be used for it, after the recording finishes, instead of not setting a bookmark, it could (should) set a bookmark on the first frame.

Alternative to the existing "Menu - Recording List Menu - Add this recording to Playlist" a new option "Add this and newer recordings to Playlist" could be presented to the user. Afterwards the user needs to "only" select the "Menu - Recording List Menu - Playlist options" and "Play". A further alternative which is much easier as the previous one would be an Option in the "Recording List Menu": "Play this and newer Recordings".

One of the alternatives would help be a lot, so I like to hear from you what your thoughts about this are.

[stuartm]

Feature request without a patch - Read the Ticket HowTo?.

In addition you are requesting features (marking recordings as watched) which have already been added to SVN.

[anonymous]

Hello I made modifications to the latest svn. I implemented "Automatic Recording Group Playback". It configures a recording group to a "automatic recording group". A recording is playbacked. When it is finished, it picks the next (by date desc) recording. DB-Table and Menus are updated. It works great. I didn't not yet implement setting a bookmark when finished, because I didn't understand your reply: marking recordings as watched. Could you be more specific what is meant with this in regard to my proposed solution of setting a bookmark.

I would like to share my modifications, but your link ​http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/wiki/HowTo is invalid. How do I share my modifications and how it will be tested and maybe accepted in a future release ?

[stuartm]

​http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/wiki/TicketHowTo

We already show an icon when recordings have been watched. This feature is available in SVN. If you are using SVN and you should see a new icon appear (depending on the theme) when you have reached the end of a recording, or exit playback within a certain % of the end.

[cpinkham]

Anonymous, if you're still around, attach your patch to this ticket and someone will take a look at it when we get a chance. I'd like to see more than the existing methods as well. I'd like for someone to implement some kind of load/save feature also to save a list of recordings and their playback order, but that is a bigger job. If you'd like to discuss either this or your existing patch, please do so on the mythtv-dev mailing list, trac is not for discussions. Once you attach a patch, you can reopen the ticket. I'm reclosing it for now.