[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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