2014-06-17, 17:43
Currently it is not implemented. I don't know how to implement the edit timer dialog that xbmc presents, but before I get into that, if you just want to stop an in-progress recording, you can just delete the timer, that will stop the recording and leave the file alone. Alternatively you can delete the in-progress wtv file, that stops the timer and DELETES the recording. These are the same functions that wmc gives you for in-progress recordings.
On the edit timer dialog, the parameters that it lets you change (channel, name, start and end time, etc) only make sense if the recording is not tied to a guide episode, but almost all recordings are tied to guide episodes. For example if you set it to record Fargo and then you change the channel in the edit dialog, what is supposed to happen?
To me, the edit dialog only makes sense if the timer is for a manual timer (recordings set by time-slot&channel), so the only option that I can think of that might make some sense is - if the user chooses this - to convert an episode timer to a manual timer when they edit it. If the timer is part of a series, that just that episode of the series is converted to a manual timer. This can't be done for in progress recordings though.
Also for episode timers wmc does not let you vary the start/end time so I could not provide this even if I wanted to, it does let you vary the padding and we could do that as an edit but we'd need to use a custom dialog.
Sorry for the long answer, this has been brought up before and I asked for user input then but nobody really knew what to do so we punted. We are still willing to implement this, we just need input.
On the edit timer dialog, the parameters that it lets you change (channel, name, start and end time, etc) only make sense if the recording is not tied to a guide episode, but almost all recordings are tied to guide episodes. For example if you set it to record Fargo and then you change the channel in the edit dialog, what is supposed to happen?
To me, the edit dialog only makes sense if the timer is for a manual timer (recordings set by time-slot&channel), so the only option that I can think of that might make some sense is - if the user chooses this - to convert an episode timer to a manual timer when they edit it. If the timer is part of a series, that just that episode of the series is converted to a manual timer. This can't be done for in progress recordings though.
Also for episode timers wmc does not let you vary the start/end time so I could not provide this even if I wanted to, it does let you vary the padding and we could do that as an edit but we'd need to use a custom dialog.
Sorry for the long answer, this has been brought up before and I asked for user input then but nobody really knew what to do so we punted. We are still willing to implement this, we just need input.
