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
On Fri, 2011-06-03 at 08:28 -0400, John Klimek wrote: ...
For example, I don't want to record every single episode of a certain show, but instead I just want the new episodes.
That's one of the things VDRAdmin-AM can do for you. Where "new" is defined as one that you have not recorded yet.
Carsten,
Am Freitag, den 03.06.2011, 15:01 +0200 schrieb Carsten Koch CarstenKochElsdorf@web.de:
Aren't VDRadmin-AM and vdr-plugin-live both just using a feature that epgsearch provides for avoiding the recording of repeated shows?
Cheers, Henning
Hi Am Freitag, 3. Juni 2011 schrieb Henning Pingel:
Yes, it is a basic feature of epgsearch and timers created from it. It is no 'special' feature of vdr-plugin-live. And AFAIK also no special feature of VDRAdmin-AM. Both web-frontends can be used to configure epgsearch accordingly.
But it should also work from within the VDR menu, when epgsearch is installed.
Regards Tadi
Other recording question: 1. 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.
Do we have "bug" here?!?
On 3.6.2011 15.28, John Klimek wrote:
Hi,
Am 03.06.2011 16:43, schrieb JJussi:
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
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:
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:
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 12:42 PM, John Klimek jklimek@gmail.com wrote:
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.
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.vdr@gmail.com wrote:
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