Season Pass - Where are you? (1 Viewer)

Topher5000

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Is there, or will there be, an option to record only first-run episodes? Sometimes stations will repeat the same episode over & over.
 

ASiDiE

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    Currently, there is nothing within MP that would only record new shows. I know a couple of guys have been working on something for this.... all in due time.
     

    martyyn

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    ASiDiE said:
    Currently, there is nothing within MP that would only record new shows. I know a couple of guys have been working on something for this.... all in due time.

    This functionality would be very welcome for me. Some shows my wife records are repeated up to five times during the week down here :(
     

    CHli

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    The only problem IMHO is the availability of this informations in the EGP. The only way would be to subscribe to a paying service to get an accurate EPG.
     

    vuego

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    I still can't find any Season Pass functionality in MP.

    When I used SageTV it would handle this perfectly and record every episode only once. If the tv-card was busy recording when the episode first aired it would automatically schedule the rerun for recording. If one episode was successfully recorded but it was removed before you watched it (because of disk space or any other reason), again the rerun would be recorded.

    Every free EPG source I know of includes episode numbering. I.e:
    Code:
      <programme start="20070716020500 +0200" stop="20070716023500 +0200" channel="kanal5.se">
        <title lang="sv">Kirstie Alley är Fat Actress</title>
        <desc lang="sv">Den berömde programledaren Merv Griffin ordnar så att Kirstie får möta en av hans rika vänner.</desc>
        <credits>
          <actor>Kirstie Alley</actor>
          <actor>Bryan Callen</actor>
          <actor>Rachael Harris</actor>
        </credits>
        <date>2005</date>
        <category lang="en">series</category>
        <category lang="en">Comedy</category>
     [B]   <episode-num system="xmltv_ns">0 . 5/7 .</episode-num>
        <episode-num system="onscreen">Del 6 av 7 säsong 1</episode-num>[/B]
      </programme>
    Is this information used by MP in any way? Perhaps I've just haven't figured out how to use it :)

    I'm using 0.2.3.0 RC1 with TVE2.
     

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