[mythtv-users] Duplicate programs being recorded

[Robert Clark]

On Wednesday October 25, 2006 02:59, "Michael T. Dean" 
<mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
> On 10/25/06 00:24, Kevin Kuphal wrote:
> >Robert Clark wrote:
> >>Ever since I upgraded from 0.18 to 0.19 (have not tried 0.20 yet)
> >> the duplicate episode matching seems to have failed.
> >
> >I think there is an option in the settings for "re-record auto
> > expired programs".  I'll bet that is on and just needs to be shut
> > off.
>
> That setting was taken out (part of the ongoing battle between the
> watch-it-and-delete-it crowd versus the
> let-autoexpire-do-all-the-deletions crowd) shortly after 0.18 was
> released.  Now, anything that's autoexpired is now automatically
> set to re-record.  See
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/commits/142714#142714

Thanks. I missed than when I was reading up on what changed between 
0.18 and 0.19. I would not have updated right away if I had seen 
this. I do wish the option to disable this was still available 
though.

> However, Stuart changed the SVN version such that any show marked
> as watched (a feature not available in 0.20 or below) that gets
> autoexpired is not set to re-record.

This will work much better for the way I use MythTV. I guess I'll just 
have to wait for it.

> For 0.19 and 0.20 users, though, deleting the shows manually
> through the GUI or through MythWeb will prevent them from being
> marked to allow re-recording (assuming you don't say, "Delete and
> allow re-record" :).

I'll give that a shot as a workaround and see how it goes.

I appreciate the extra-quick answer with all the info I needed.

Cheers,
   Rob