[mythtv-users] Repeating previously recorded...

[Joseph Fry]

> Ok, I thought that only marked a show as watched if you watched most of
> the show but didn't go all the way to the end.  I didn't think it had any
> effect if you didn't watch it at all.
>
> According to this page from the MythTV wiki:
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/User_Manual:Detailed_configuration_Frontend
>
> If set, when you exit near the end of a recording it will be marked as
> watched. The automatic detection is not foolproof, so do not enable this
> setting if you don't want an unwatched recording to be marked for
> expiration.
>
> So will setting that really fix my issue?  I am certainly willing to try
> it, but it doesn't seem like it will.
>
> If MythTV can't handle the scenario (someone recording something but not
> watching via the front end), I'm perfectly willing to write process that
> updates the mythconverg database when I copy that show off my MythTV box to
> mark the show as watched so that it doesn't re-record.  I just want to make
> sure the functionality doesn't exist already in MythTV.
>
>
I don't use the watched recordings feature either... never have shows
re-record on me.  However I believe there is a setting to re-record shows
that were not marked watched if they auto-expired... but it seems to me
that was optional.
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