[mythtv-users] Schedule with Maxepisodes records one too many with back-to-back recordings

[Michael T. Dean]

On 08/26/2012 12:46 PM, Karl Newman wrote:
> Well, I've been dealing with this issue for several years but now I've
> started watching a show that triggers this every day and it's finally
> annoying enough that I thought I'd dig into it more. I found this old
> ticket: http://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/6438 which seems to address
> the situation I have. It's marked as fixed, but that bug might have
> been for a slightly more specific situation. Basically, I have a
> recording rule with "No. of recordings to keep" set to 3 and "Record
> new and expire old" unselected. Normally, the schedule works correctly
> and I always keep 3 episodes around. However, if there are 2 episodes
> aired back-to-back (on the same channel) and I have one less than the
> maximum episodes recorded, Myth will record the first episode as it
> should but then it will record the second episode as well. Then after
> it has finished recording, the auto-expire code will notice there is
> one too many and proceed to expire the oldest recording. To work
> around this, I have to look at the upcoming recordings and manually
> tell the second airing not to record. The above mentioned ticket had a
> patch which also checked for any recordings in-progress, but for some
> reason it was rejected. I do have a 90 second soft pre and post-record
> set up; not sure if that might be affecting this.
>
> Should I revive this old ticket, or create a new one?

If it's doing it again, then create a new ticket.  You may refer to the 
old ticket, if it's related, but since the previous issue was fixed, 
this is not the same issue, so should not be the same ticket.

Mike