[mythtv-users] Vacation recording rule setting

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Mon Jan 23 03:46:19 UTC 2012


On 01/22/2012 09:26 PM, Anthony Giggins wrote:
> On 23 January 2012 11:30, Ian Evans wrote:
>> On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 8:17 PM, BobW wrote:
>>> My solution for this problem was to set daily news programs to have a
>>> max record limit and expire the oldest recording when the max recordings
>>> was reached. I figure 3 days back was more than enough to catch up.
>> Ah, of course. One quick question though. Occasionally we'll see
>> something (like a friend being profiled) and want to keep it after
>> editing it down to just that one segment. Can you set just that one
>> particular episode not to auto-expire?
> Yes just set that particular recording to not expire, it will still count
> towards the number of recordings too keep though so you may wish to
> increase that as you preserve recordings.

Auto-expire occurs when you run out of space on the file system and 
MythTV needs to make room for new recordings.

If you set up a rule to keep a max of 3 episodes, the additional 
episodes aren't auto-expired, they're deleted.

If you want to keep a recording that's from a rule with a max episode 
limit, you /must/ "Preserve" the episode with MENU|Storage 
Options|Preserve this episode.

You may /also/ "Disable Auto Expire" on that episode--but that won't 
come into play until your file system is full.

Oh, and once you preserve the episode, I'm pretty sure it no longer 
counts toward the recording limit (though this may have changed so that 
it does still count, now?).

Mike


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