[mythtv] MYthTV recording deleted automaticly - even when set not to

[Marcel Meier]

I'm at the moment trying to make a patch for Plan b), and I'm looking for the 
code where a recording not will be made because of the "maxepisode" limit.

The code for the deleting of the oldest Episode if found in "autoexpire.cpp" 
and made the 3 line modification to make it behave as descriped in b) below.

Now I want to do this also for the "don't recorde if this would exceed the max 
episodes" but I can't find the function which checks for it. If someone could 
get me a hint it would be appreciated.

Thanks marcel

PS: I found in the gossamer thread, that this issue was already discussed 
about 2 month ago. This was a little bit to early - which mean I was'nt 
reading all this stuff and tryed to understand Linux, MythTV etc. at that 
time

Am Sonntag, 3. Oktober 2004 17.49 schrieb Marcel Meier:
> > >I think we don't need a new "never delete" option. Or can anyone explain
> > > to
>
> me
>
> > >the benefit of having an option to "Do not auto-expire" when this
> > > showing
>
> for
>
> > >some other reason still will be deleted.
> > >From my point of view when I want a recording not to "auto expire" then
> > > I
>
> want
>
> > >to keep it until I decide to delete it.
> > >
> > >Did I miss the point? Is there a reason for this feature to behave like
>
> this?
>
> > "Auto-expire" and "Keep X episodes" are two totally different features.
> > The first removes recordings when disk space gets low, the latter does
> > what it says.  The "Do not auto-expire" option applies to the first
> > feature and there is no corresponding "never delete" option for the
> > second.
> >
> > Kevin
>
> So that leads be to the conclusion, that
>
> a) it's not possible in a simple way to prevent a recording which is
> recorded with the option "Keep X episodes" from being deleted
>
> or
> b) we or I and some others would like that the option "Do not auto-expire"
> prevent a recording from being deleted even if its recorded with the "Keep
> X episodes" and is also not counted as on of this X episodes
>
> or
> c) we or I and some others would need a additional option when the recoding
> is one of the sort "Keep X episodes" to remove this out of this group that
> it could be set to "Do not auto-expire"
>
> or
> d) we or I and some others would need a additional option "never delete"
> when the recoding is one of the sort "Keep X episodes" to prevent it from
> being automatically deleted by one of this routine (Keep X episodes / disk
> space low)
>
> My vote would be for option (b) which I think would also only need a minor
> change in the Code, I think, but I had no time to look for the place to
> check it, so I might be wrong on this.
> I would like to hear your opinion too.
>
>
> Thanks Marcel