[mythtv-users] Problems with recording - too many

[Mike Perkins]

Nick Rout wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 4:04 PM, Yan Seiner <yan at seiner.com> wrote:
>> I'm having an issue with identical episodes being recorded over and over.
>>  Used to be that myth would look at the subtitle and description, to see if
>> it already had the episode, but at some point it quit doing that.
>>
>> I have to admit I have not been paying attention to myth; it's an appliance
>> and it just works.  Recently I added another tb to the storage space, and
>> now myth has decided to fill it with identical episodes....
>>
>> I am running 0.22.  In 0.21 there was a setting somewhere for telling myth
>> to use the subtitle and description to find dupes but I can't for the life
>> of me find it.....
>>
>> Where is that setting?
> 
> In each recording rule. You can set subtitle AND description or
> subtitle THEN description. I find THEN is better at avoiding repeats,
> but I believe that is in part because my epg data is not strong on
> subtitle info anyway.
> 
There's also the filter setting. You may have to select "Exclude generic 
episodes" or "Exclude repeats" or something like that.

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Mike Perkins