Lots of response to the original question - thanks!
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.
Is that possible?
On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 2:54 AM, JJussi vdr@jjussi.com wrote:
Hi! Yes, Now I got it work.. (My bad) Error was that, that I didn't have ONLY that Movie/Drama set on... I had other category set on same time. What IS, in my opinion, a bug! Because in real life, program can only have one category and if I want to record programs from two or more categories, I need to make those as different record searches. And now when I got it work, I can really see that providers put too many programs under that Movie/Drama category, especially programs what are NOT movies (but could maybe categorize to drama, if you think "widely") :-)
Thank you!
On 3.6.2011 20.47, Christian Wieninger wrote:
Hi,
Am 03.06.2011 16:43, schrieb JJussi:
Other recording question:
- If I make EPG record search pattern: Regexp '.*' --> it will find all
programs. (As it should!) 2. If I add to that 1. search "Type Movie/Drama" --> it will not find any programs, even I can see from EPG that there is Movie/Drama -type programs.
works fine here, but do you really have correct content descriptors in your EPG? Most of the time the providers deliver complete nonsense here. Do you use an epgsearch version that supports this type of search already (I've added it in 0.9.25-beta19)?
Please check it again without regexp but with a search with any search term and the settings "Use title/subtitle/description" all set to no.
Is it possible for VDR to only record new episodes of shows?
as already mentioned - yes. Use the search timer setting 'avoid repeats' for this.
cheers, Christian
Do we have "bug" here?!?
On 3.6.2011 15.28, John Klimek wrote:
Is it possible for VDR to only record new episodes of shows?
For example, I don't want to record every single episode of a certain show, but instead I just want the new episodes.
Also, how smart is VDR if an episode is a special episode and is longer than a normal episode, etc?
Thanks, John
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