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[normanr]

That I agree on: so looking at adding a feature which only zap2it and some xmltv grabber support, is it worth it?
(I'm afraid that all the zap2it users will answer with a resounding yes)
Remember sub, that the next version of xmltv dtd officially supports this feature too.

[sub]

Quote[/b] ]Remember sub, that the next version of xmltv dtd officially supports this feature too

That "next version of the XMLTV dtd" (v0.6) has be around since long before I started this project. From what I can tell, its pretty much been ignored by the development community - probably because most xmltv grabbers have to screen scrape, and this information is just not available at these sources.

[UncleJohnsBand]

Quote[/b] (normanr @ Feb. 28 2005,02:21)]latest web & search (build 8):

UncleJohnsBand: new recording quality choice in the popup & you get to choose season recordings, etc.

mroy: from the popup you can auto-search for other episodes of this program (all episodes, or just this episode)

hopefully the popup doesn't look too cluttered :-)

Sweet!  

I like it.  I don't think the pop-up is crowded at all.  

I did notice that the pop-up under IE has a bottom scroll bar and then after a while ends up with a side one as well.  I am not seeing this under FireFox.

[UncleJohnsBand]

Quote[/b] (normanr @ Feb. 28 2005,02:29)]UncleJohnsBand: forgot the mention that in build 8 I fixed the season recordings showing with the start and end times being 2001/01/01 12:00:00, and yes - if you cancel the season recording, then all the shows disappear.  This happens to be the way the backend works.

Thanks for fixing that.  

Any idea why the backend processes this way?  I would think if you were canceling a series record that it should be able to handle that type of request....perhaps it needs a CancelSeries method added.  

[UncleJohnsBand]

Quote[/b] (sub @ Feb. 28 2005,13:57)]

Quote[/b] ]Remember sub, that the next version of xmltv dtd officially supports this feature too

That "next version of the XMLTV dtd" (v0.6) has be around since long before I started this project. From what I can tell, its pretty much been ignored by the development community - probably because most xmltv grabbers have to screen scrape, and this information is just not available at these sources.

If the functionality can be coded to only be available if the users EPG utilizes it (i.e. zap2it) then what is the harm?  

[mroy]

It's not the harm, it's the effort involved, and if there's really no personal benefit for the developer, there's little motivation to dedicate good amounts of time that's already in short supply to add or enhance certain features.

[normanr]

you got the nail on the head right there :-) at least if the values are pulled from the xml files I generate then I can use it too. I guess that I could add a feature to show other shows with the same unique_identitifer if the current show has one (much like the subtitle search atm).

[mroy]

I'll add some zap2it specific stuff, w/ the detector down the road when I find some time.

[UncleJohnsBand]

normanr....didn't know if you missed my two items from above....

I did notice that the pop-up under IE has a bottom scroll bar and then after a while ends up with a side one as well. I am not seeing this under FireFox.

Any idea why the backend processes this way? I would think if you were canceling a series record that it should be able to handle that type of request....perhaps it needs a CancelSeries method added.

[normanr]

Popup: Yea, i use Firefox to develop, and then i test in IE (must have missed that one). I'll see if I can remove the bottom scroll bar. The side scrollbar is meant to appear if the discription is really long. Maybe I can just make the popup bigger :-)

Backend: errr, which cancel button? if you hit the cancel button on the manage recordings page for the season recording then i cancels all recordings. If you hit cancel for a single recording on the manage page just that recording is cancelled (but will come back when you update the EPG). Or is this when you hit the cancel button in the popup?