[mythtv] Suggested change in oldrecord behaviour

David Engel gigem at comcast.net
Mon May 3 16:21:08 EDT 2004


On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 04:39:37PM +0100, Ed Wildgoose wrote:
> First suggestion would be to disable it completely for single 
> recordings.  The idea here is that if I deliberately set a single 

The oldhistory is already ignored for kSingleRecords.

> The second area would be to look at adding a "watched" flag, and then if 
> something is deleted or autoexpired before it is watched then we also 
> remove it from the oldrecorded table.

Please go read the list archives for the difficulties in doing this.

On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 07:00:07PM +0100, Ed Wildgoose wrote:
> Actually, this patch looks better.  This way we still mark it as 

And it's still not needed.

IIRC, Chris Pinkham signed up to address the autoexpirt/oldhistory
issue but has been too busy.  If he doesn't get to it before I finish
my current project, I will do something.

David
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