[mythtv-users] better way to record / feature req

[Chris Pinkham]

> Quick question: when the CVS code deletes a show because you set keep X
> episodes, does it delete it from oldrecorded as well, so it will catch
> it again?  I've wanted an auto-delete feature of some sort for a while
> but I always figured that to be useful an auto-delete function (no
> matter how you configure it) would have to remove it from oldrecorded
> too.

There are a couple different things going on.  If you set MaxEpisodes
and do not set the MaxNewest field then Myth will stop recording once
the MaxEpisodes count is reached.  If you do turn on the Max Newest
field, then Myth will auto-delete the oldest recording once you go over
the max count.  In the first case, oldrecorded isn't touched because
nothing is being deleted (it just stops recording new shows).  In
the second case it will not touch oldrecorded since it makes
no assumptions about whether the show being deleted has been watched
or not.

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Chris