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Here's something else I was just thinking about when reading over the
conflict resolution thread. Like every good Unix and perl program,
webvcrplus has a number of ways to skin the same cat. How do people on
this list generally use it, especially wrt recording?

For instance, my personal behavior is once the listings have been
downloaded each week, I go straight to the All Scheduled Movies page. I
also have a page on the Index to see what is currently scheduled (at
least until we get a handle on this conflict resolution thing). I scroll
down through the list and schedule movies for the week.

I then go to the search box and select shows that I am looking for
specific episodes, but don't want to add to favorites (like Voyager) and
select episodes from there.

Over the course of the week, I will schedule things from time to time
from the Now On TV page, and occasionally drill down on a specific
channel and schedule from the weekly listing for that channel.

I don't postprocess through the program. Since I am using
mencoder/ffmpeg for recording, I know through experience that a
framerate of 976 will, after removing commercials (I use avidemux for
that), give me 350MB/hour, which gets me 2 hours per CD with decent
quality.

Can others provide insight into how they use webvcrplus? I think that
might give the developers some ideas into how to make it better.

A couple of suggestions from my experience...
1. Keep a library of the .xml files (in a separate directory) of things
that have been recorded. For instance, say I have Star Trek as a
favorite. SciFi loves to have marathons every few weeks and tend to
repeat the same episodes. As it is now, I end up digging through a pile
of CDs that I have offloaded episodes on to.

2. A down-the-road feature might be to incorporate a full-featured
user-modifiable video database into the mysql database for not only
things recorded from webvcrplus, but DVDs, VCDs etc.

3. On the All Scheduled Movies page, movies that have been scheduled
just disappear from the listing rather than showing up with a green dot
icon beside them. On other pages (like the search page or the Now On TV
page), the program shows up with the green dot. And unlike the current
green-dot pages, when you click on a movie on the All Scheduled Movies
page, it tosses you onto the Movies Showing Now page and you have to
click the back button.

4. On the All Scheduled Movies page (and the Movies Showing Today page),
the listings are broken down by channel by time. I would like to also
see a by time by channel listing, because by the time I get down to the
last few channels, I tend to forget when what I have scheduled on
earlier channels. And it seems to me that different networks try to
schedule decent movies at the same time, so it would be helpful to be
able to view what movies are showing in the same timeframe.

Keep up the good work.
-- 
--Brad
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