[mythtv-users] Question about recording history

Brian Walter blwalter at gmail.com
Wed Jun 13 14:53:53 UTC 2007


Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 06/13/2007 10:00 AM, Brian Walter wrote:
>   
>> I've been trying to figure out if this is possible, and so far, no luck.
>>
>> After using several DirecTivos for several years, the wife was asking 
>> about 'Delete' and 'Delete and allow re-record' and how these relate to 
>> Tivo's 28 day rule.
>>
>> We notice that if we do a 'Delete and allow...' if the same episode is 
>> on on a different channel the next day, it will be picked up.  We are 
>> wondering if it is possible to basically say 'Don't record if the 
>> episode was recorded in the past X days'.
>>   
>>     
>
> We don't (yet) have anything like that.  Adding that behavior shouldn't
> be too difficule, though.  Feel like writing some code?
>   

Point me in the right direction :)
>   
>> Also, does the oldrecorded table *ever* get cleared out,
>>     
>
> No.  There's no need to do so.  The table will never be large.  I've
> recorded 5844 programs in over 3 years of use.  I have 6314 records in
> oldrecorded, and oldrecorded is only 1.4MB on disk (with 700KB of index,
> making it take a total of 2MB).
>   
It wasn't so much the *size*, as I misunderstood how it was consumed by 
the scheduler..but good to know anyways.
>   
>>  or is there a 
>> purge utility?  There was mention in the wiki that mythfront end had a 
>> utility to make the schedulerer forget it saw the episode
>>     
>
> If you decide at some point after you've recorded and deleted a show
> that you would like to re-record that show with an existing rule, you
> can use the Previously Recorded screen in mythfrontend to "Allow this
> episode to re-record".  You can also use that screen to "Remove this
> episode from the list" or "Remove all episodes for this title" (i.e. so
> no one can prove you recorded "Thelma and Louise").  The difference
> between "Allow this episode to re-record" and removing an episode(s)
> from the list is that with "Allow this episode to re-record," Myth
> maintains the record of your having previously recorded it, but tells
> the scheduler to ignore that record for duplicate matching.
>
>   
>>  - is this the 
>> 'delete and allow re-record' option?  Or is there something else?
>>     
>
> Delete and allow re-record can only be used when deleting the show.  The
> Previously Recorded screen can be used at any time.
>
> Note, also, that you can /always/ record any episode--whether it's set
> to be used for duplicate matching or not--by creating a recording rule
> with duplicate matching disabled or set to only check existing
> recordings.  You also have the option of creating recording overrides
> (i.e. "record anyway" behavior), which you can do through the Upcoming
> Recordings screen, to force recording even though the episode was not
> going to be recorded because of duplicate matching.
>
> Mike
> _______________________________________________
>   
Thanks!  I'll have to digest all this info, but, it sounds like there 
are multiple solutions!

Brian


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