[mythtv-users] Backend (still) always recording duplicates.

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Mon Jun 11 19:15:56 UTC 2007


On 06/11/2007 03:05 PM, Nathan Caldwell wrote:
> On 6/11/07, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
>   
>> On 06/10/2007 08:38 PM, Nathan Caldwell wrote:
>>     
>>> Hi, my backend is always recording duplicate shows.
>>> I asked about this in February
>>> (http://mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2007-February/169060.html),
>>> and (sort of) solved it with the help of Bruce Markey
>>> (http://mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2007-February/169199.html).
>>>
>>> However, my backend is _still_ attempting to rerecord duplicate shows.
>>> Not the same ones that were fixed, but any new episode I record, then
>>> subsequently delete the backend automatically rerecords. Now, I
>>> understand I could just fix it the same way I did before, but this
>>> really seems to fix the symptom, not the problem. Are there any
>>> settings I could check that would cause this behavior? Or, is there
>>> any way I could fix the problem, so I don't have to fix up the
>>> database every couple of weeks?
>>>       
>> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/273410#273410 (and
>> the rest of the thread)
> Thanks, Mike.
> However, I have just the opposite problem. I manually delete all my
> shows, that's how I notice that duplicates are getting rerecorded. It
> seems like all new recordings are getting entered with duplicate=0. I
> looked for the Rerecord watched programs, and couldn't find any
> setting in the frontend. Although I'm not sure weather the Gentoo
> maintainers are using .20-fixes or trunk.

It should be 0.20-fixes, so you shouldn't have the feature, yet.

>  Like I said, though, It's
> manually deleted recordings that are the problem. I'm not so sure
> about autoexpire, as I rarely let shows autoexpire, and if they do I
> would actually _like_ them to be rerecorded.

You could get that behavior by using different versions of mythfrontend
and mythbackend.  Otherwise--short of your always choosing, "Delete and
allow re-record"--I can't think of any possible way manually deleted
shows would be set to allow re-record.  And, if new records are actually
created with duplicate = 0, it's almost definitely a library version
mismatch.

Mike


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