[mythtv-users] Re-recording damaged recordings
Michael T. Dean
mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Tue Jul 3 20:36:08 UTC 2012
On 07/02/2012 04:05 PM, John wrote:
> On 02/07/12 15:13, Peter Bennett (cats22) wrote:
>> I am using mythtv 0.25.
>>
>> A few days ago one program that was supposed to be 1 hour only
>> recorded 30 minutes. It is shown with a yellow dot in the listing on
>> the front end. However, although that episode is showing several
>> times again, it had not scheduled a re-recording of it. I have now
>> gone into "Previously Recorded" and selected it for recording again,
>> and now it is scheduled to record again.
>>
>> My question is, should not mythTV do that automatically? If only 30
>> minutes out of 1 hour are recorded, can it automatically schedule it
>> to record again? Many times on cable channels, the program is
>> repeated later the same night, so it could easily record the damaged
>> program again.
>>
> I think thats a feature request, but It seems like a sensible feature,
> I would definitely benefit from it, UK is littered with +1 hour channels.
Pretty sure it does mark episodes whose recordings were damaged to allow
re-record, but only after a fix that went into 0.25-fixes. Tried updating?
Mike
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