<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Nov 29, 2007, at 10:26 AM, Daniel Arfsten wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Bitstream Vera Sans'; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div class="hmmessage" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; ">I have a problem with Mythtv recording an episode of Scrubs which has already been recorded in the past, watched, and deleted. Is it because after I delete it it's not there, so it thinks that it never recorded that episode? that would really stink if that's the case. Mythweb states for Scrubs to "Find and record one showing of this title each day." and these other settings are also checked:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><dl class="clearfix"><dt>Check for duplicates in: All recordings<br></dt><dd><br></dd><dt>Duplicate Check method: Subtitle and Description</dt></dl>Also, there's a checkmark that I have tried that states, "Record new and expire old".<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br>It's also happening with other shows like Family Guy which has a recording setting of: "<label for="record_channel">Record at any time on channel WCGV.</label>"<br><br>So can anyone explain how Mythtv works for recordings that have already been recorded, watched, and deleted? Why is it recording it again or this normal? Much appreciated.<br></div></span></blockquote></div><br><div>Because the Subtitle and Description for the show do not exactly match the one that was already recorded so it's not seen as a duplicate recording or because the program has generic program information and therefore MythTV has no way to know if it's been recorded or not, so it records it just in case.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></body></html>