[mythtv-users] "Record Only This Showing" & duplicate matching

[Mike Perkins]

On 18/03/14 11:48, Mark Perkins wrote:
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>> On 18 Mar 2014, at 9:45 pm, "George Nassas" <gnassas at mac.com> wrote:
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>>> On Mar 17, 2014, at 5:32 PM, Mark Perkins <perkins1724 at hotmail.com> wrote:
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>>> Identical and non-generic?
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>> I think you're off on a tangent here.
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> Nope. You said you could do 'x', then mythtv changed, and now you can't do 'x'. Just trying to help by exploring alternative explanations for what you observed that don't require mythtv functionality to have changed.
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>> I'm really asking the intended behaviour of the single recording rule & hoping to catch the attention of David Engel for a Solmonic pronouncement.
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> Sounds good, though I thought you asked why the functionality was changed from the way it previously worked. I'll await the answer.
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>> To my mind record once is a kind of manual recording with metadata as a value added. I'm not sure why someone would go trawling through the listings for a particular showing if they then wanted the scheduler to overrule them, there are plenty of very nice search rules for that.
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>> If single recording is not intended as an imperative + metadata then maybe it ought to be.
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'Record Once' isn't an imperative - 'Record This Showing' is. 'Record Once' will 
find a showing and record it for you - it might not be the one you selected, 
though, if that conflicted with another recording.

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Mike Perkins