[vdr] Re: Alphabetical sort order in the recordings menu ???

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Subject: [vdr] Alphabetical sort order in the recordings menu ??? (01-Mai-2002 11:57)
From:    nschmidt-nrw@t-online.de
To:      vdr@linuxtv.org

> Hi all,
> 
> in order to keep my recordings menu as clear as possible, I
> made an "Spielfilme" directory  under /video and moved all
> cutted films (not series) into it.
> 
> Unfortunately in this special case, vdr-subdirs are sorted by
> date. This would be OK for a series-subdir, but not for this
> one. I would prefer an alphabetical order here.
> 
> Will it ever be possible to select (and save) the wanted sort
> order for each recordings subdir ("date" as default)?

This would be perfect. But even a toggle-key (sort for date/name)
qould be ok.
 
> In the meantime: Any ideas for a "workaround"??

A while ago i had the same problem.
Klaus sent me the following workaround:

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> In that case the recordings within
> a subdirectory are sorted by date, because they are assumed to be the
> various episodes of a series.
> 
> If you don't like this you can comment out everything in cRecording::
> StripEpisodeName()
> (see file recording.c), except for the final 'return s;'
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With this modification every subdir is sorted by name.

...Andreas