[mythtv-users] How to record Monday only showing of a daily show

[JC]

Hi Chris,

Yes, the way they do it, is that when you choose to record, you can specify
to keep "n" episodes of the show.  It will then toss out the oldest one and
record a new one once that number has been reached.  Works great and is a
life-saver for those things like Seinfeld, etc. that are on multiple times a
day.  With the way Myth is today, if you don't get to it for a few days, you
could have a dozen recordings filling up your drive, keeping you from having
room for other shows.  In fact, I just checked and there are over 20
episodes of Seinfeld in the next THREE days!  A week?  105 shows!  Hello
full hard drive!  Gotta have that feature!  :-)

Thanks,
JC



----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Pinkham" <cpinkham at bc2va.org>
To: <mythtv-users at snowman.net>
Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2003 11:43 AM
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] How to record Monday only showing of a daily
show


> How do they do this?  Do they only record the first X episodes and
> skip the rest until one is delete or do they record every episode and
> delete the oldest so they only keep the X newest episodes?
>
> I'm thinking you would want the 5 newest episodes but wanted to
> verify how they did it.
>
> This feature is on a few people's TODO list I believe (including mine),
> but no timeframe for implementation.  I guess first one of us who gets
> the time.
>
> I think this will be much easier to implement once the auto-expire/delete
> code is working since anything over X episodes could be deleted whenever
> the cleanup ran.
>
> > The one feature I REALLY miss in MythTV is the ability to control how
MANY
> > episodes of a show to record.  TiVo and ReplayTV both let you set this.
> > Myth does not.  I think it would be wonderful.
>
> Chris
>