[mythtv-users] Will autoexpire auto-re-record?

[Michael T. Dean]

On 02/22/2006 12:26 AM, Derek Battams wrote:

>Quoting Mike Grusin <mgrusin at comcast.net>:
>
>>Quick question: if a program autoexpires before you get a chance to watch
>>it, is Myth supposed to automatically re-record it when it appears in the
>>schedule again?
>>
>>I had previously thought it was supposed to do this, but I've just run into
>>a few situations where it clearly didn't (the olympics have pushed a lot of
>>stuff off my system ;)  I'm still on 18.1.
>>    
>>
>I plan on investigating this exact issue relatively soon, but this 
>seems like a good time to start the discussion. ;-)
>
>My understanding of how this works (from an initial investigation a 
>long, long time ago) is that if Myth auto expires a recording and you 
>have set the 'RerecordAutoExpired' option to on
>

The RerecordAutoExpired option has been removed.  Instead, Myth 0.19 
always assumes that it should re-record any auto-expired shows.  See 
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/commits/142714#142714 
(whole thread)

Mike