Recording TV Shows

igalan · 2006-07-31, 18:37

There is a very nice option to record TV Shows: "Record always on this channel". This works nicely except that often EPG has not only the show name like "Stargate SG-1" or "Charmed" or whatever, but also "Stargate SG-1: The Lost City". And when that happens, which is often in Spain, this scheduled recording will not start because the names don't match. Now, is there a way to record the show even if the episode name is listed? I know I can set it to "Record always at this time", but the schedule may be shifted (it happens too often) and you end without the ending or the beginning. A partial name matching would be a handy feature, something like record "Stargate SG-1*" always on this channel (meaning that after the last character -user selected-, anything else does not matter).

ohdarklord · 2006-07-31, 19:40

I have similar problems when im recording tv shows

For example King of the hill somtimes is king of the hill (lower case k)

And somtimes shows that are early morning channel 4 have T4 infront of the name.

If someone could make a way for mediaportal to to use a wildcard like * or not be case specific it would be really usefull.

jawbroken · 2006-08-01, 11:06

Yeah, this is definitely a needed feature. Could also allow matching on genre, time ranges, etc. This is a difficult thing to get right with a remote, however, so I imagine that is why it currently doesn't exist.

igalan · 2006-08-01, 11:21

It doesn't has to be that difficult, it could be implemented in a way that the left arrow (on remote or keyboard) trims the left side of the program description, and moving to the right does the same on the right side; then looking at the remaining string like '*string*' would work, and it would be easy to the user (or at least it looks easy enough to me).

But that's a feature request

. Before posting on the correct forum I wanted to know if there is a way to do this, and it seems that there isn't.

Any moderator around who could move this post to the feature requests forum?

2006-07-31, 18:37	#1 (permalink)
igalan Portal Developer Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Barcelona Age: 36 Posts: 334 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts Country: My System	Recording TV Shows There is a very nice option to record TV Shows: "Record always on this channel". This works nicely except that often EPG has not only the show name like "Stargate SG-1" or "Charmed" or whatever, but also "Stargate SG-1: The Lost City". And when that happens, which is often in Spain, this scheduled recording will not start because the names don't match. Now, is there a way to record the show even if the episode name is listed? I know I can set it to "Record always at this time", but the schedule may be shifted (it happens too often) and you end without the ending or the beginning. A partial name matching would be a handy feature, something like record "Stargate SG-1*" always on this channel (meaning that after the last character -user selected-, anything else does not matter).

2006-07-31, 19:40	#2 (permalink)
ohdarklord Portal Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Scotland Posts: 196 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts Country: My System	I have similar problems when im recording tv shows For example King of the hill somtimes is king of the hill (lower case k) And somtimes shows that are early morning channel 4 have T4 infront of the name. If someone could make a way for mediaportal to to use a wildcard like * or not be case specific it would be really usefull. __________________

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2006-08-01, 11:06	#3 (permalink)
jawbroken Portal Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Melbourne, Australia Age: 22 Posts: 707 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts My System	Yeah, this is definitely a needed feature. Could also allow matching on genre, time ranges, etc. This is a difficult thing to get right with a remote, however, so I imagine that is why it currently doesn't exist.

2006-08-01, 11:21	#4 (permalink)
igalan Portal Developer Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Barcelona Age: 36 Posts: 334 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts Country: My System	It doesn't has to be that difficult, it could be implemented in a way that the left arrow (on remote or keyboard) trims the left side of the program description, and moving to the right does the same on the right side; then looking at the remaining string like 'string' would work, and it would be easy to the user (or at least it looks easy enough to me). But that's a feature request . Before posting on the correct forum I wanted to know if there is a way to do this, and it seems that there isn't. Any moderator around who could move this post to the feature requests forum?