In <200601291927.41112.vdr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Dave P wrote: > On Sunday 29 Jan 2006 18:02, Tony Houghton wrote: > > > > Just wait until you want to record a film on, say, ITV2. You know, one > > > of those which is split in half so that they can stick in some other > > > programme, the scheduled start and end times of which are works of > > > fiction. > > > > I've found that a nuisance too. You have to get used to it, because in > > printed TV guides they often just list it as one programme with a note > > that there's a break for something else in the middle. I think it would > > be worthwhile for VDR to check whether the next programme but one after > > the one you're recording has the same name. > > That won't work where channels are showing back-to-back episodes of a > series, eg the endless 'Friends', or the 'Dibnah' series on UK History. I'm not sure what Darren was getting at in his response to you, but his attachments have shown that in that case the programs tend have different descriptions, whereas "continued after the news" type things tend to have the same description for both parts. Some sort of interaction would be nice, but it would have to be implemented separately in vdr and vdradmin (and any other front ends?). > I just tried to use vdradmin to find an actual example, but vdr 1.3.41 > seems to have broken it again. More later... ITYM "increased its brokenness". -- TH * http://www.realh.co.uk
