[mythtv] Curiosity - make expire instead of delete?

[Stuart Auchterlonie]

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Jon Bishop wrote:
> Instead of recording shows with an expiration, I would like to be  
> able to set all shows not to expire by default. When I'm in the watch  
> recordings menu, I'd like to be able to instead of deleting a show,  
> mark it for expiration. Then, nothing would get deleted from my myth  
> box until there was no space left to record new shows. This is  
> because I have a lot on my box, and sometimes I just want to go and  
> watch old shows, so I'd like them to be there and viewable, but I  
> don't want them to be there preventing me from recording a new show.  
> Also would be nice if there was some way to prioritize recordings so  
> that the lowest priority recording will expire first.
> 

This is a -users question and merely a matter of configuration
of your recording rules.

The details are left as an exercise for the reader...


Stuart


> I have no problem digging into the code and trying to make it happen,  
> but I really don't know where to even begin, as in, I know a little  
> visual basic (heh, hardly a language), a lot of perl, some php,  
> actionscript and javascript. So, I guess I'd have to start with C...   
> Then someone would have to tell me where to start coding...
> 
> ~Jon

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