On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 1:47 PM, Mika Laitio <lamikr@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I don't think it's difficult to do right at all to be honest. You can >> just make user-defined thresholds so the the user can decide himself >> how many mins or % of the total recording triggers the partial-view >> and viewed flags. For example one guy might want: >> >> not-viewed: <5% viewed >> partial-viewed: 5%+ viewed >> viewed: 95%+ viewed >> >> and another guy could customize it differently such as <10%, 10%+, >> 99%+... This way the user gets the 3 flags and gets to decide when >> they're triggered. I think this would satisfy the majority/most users >> with low difficulty to implement. > > Percentages would not work well as 5% is much more from 20 minute > recording than 2 hour movie. Percentages make the most sense to me because 1) the user can decide for himself what threshold he wants to use, and 2) using a percentage when you have recordings of different lengths is better than using a single Xmin value which would probably only work well with recordings of a single length. A playtime of 20mins might work well for an hour long show but would be ridiculous for a 30min show -- hardcoded values always suck, the user can decide what he likes without outside help. My personal preference would be 25% / 90%. 25% of 30mins is 7.5mins 25% of 60mins is 15mins 25% of 120mins is 30mins 90% of 30mins is 27mins 90% of 60mins is 54mins 90% of 120mins is 108mins It's reasonable to say if you've watched 7.5mins of a 30min show, you've watched it partially and if you've watched 27mins, you've watched it. Same for 15mins/54mins of a 60min show, and 30mins/108mins of a 120min show. To me that's far better than setting one value and forcing it on every recording no matter what the length is, and it makes it possible to customize it to your own individual preference (which I'm almost always a big supporter of). Problems like this are best solved when you ask what works best for most people in most cases, because there is no "perfect" solution. _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
