[vdr] Re: Master timer?

[Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>]

"Dr. Werner Fink" wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 02:18:57PM +0200, Jan Ekholm wrote:
> > On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Steffen Barszus wrote:
> > >On Thursday 09 January 2003 11:49, you wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Has there been any discussions about a feature that would allow you to
> > >> always record a given show at any day? Like "always record Simpsons, any
> > >> day". I know the TiVo has such a feature.
> > >
> > >Isn't that the reason for master-timer ? I don't see the use for an in-vdr
> > >mastertimer, since I would never ever try to type with my ir-remote. Maybe if
> > >sometimes someone has wrote a T9-similar typing solution based on the EPG as
> > >word-book. And I really need some big hd's to have a use for it at all ;)
> >
> > Maybe I've read the VDR manual a bit sloppily, but can I select a program
> > from the EPG and tell VDR to always record a show with that name, no
> > matter when it comes or on which channel?
> 
> Hmmm ... I'd use the timer menu (OK vdr-1.0.4) for several series
> like StarTrek (NG, DS9), some more and Sentinel.  It work flawless,
> nevertheless the starting time of Sentinel at Kabel1 are always moving
> around between 22:00 and 23:00 ... in other words it would be nice to
> have the possiblitiy to say within VDRs timer menu "Be ready at 22:00
> but do only record if found the start time of series within the EPG data"

And what if, for whatever reason, the EPG data is wrong? Maybe a missing letter,
like "Starrek" instead of "StarTrek"? If VDR would then decide not to record
anyting, I guess you would be pretty furious ;-)

Klaus
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