[mythtv-users] maxnewest | maxepisodes | autoexpire

[Torben Jensen]

Hi,

If used med maxepisodes, like "the Simpsons", I could easiely imagine
seeing the greatest episode ever, and wanting to keep it around, to show
to others, or view again - if a user actively marks something not to be
deleted, it should simply not be deleted!!

Just my 5 cents.

Torben Jensen

On Wednesday 04 August 2004 08:37, Chris Strom wrote:
> If I remove the autoexpire flag from a recording, shouldn't that 
> prevent it from being expired, regardless of the expiration mechanism?

> When a recording schedule has maxnewest (`Record new and expire old?' 
> in MythWeb) set to `1' and the maxepisodes limit is reached for that 
> schedule, myth currently expires the oldest recording, regardless of 
> the autoexpire flag.  I expected it to expire the oldest recording 
> *with autoexpire set*.

Then you'd be expecting incorrectly :-)

> Is there a reason for not honoring autoexpire in this case?

Yes.  Autoexpire and maxnewest/maxepisodes are not related.  Autoexpire
is a mechanism to indicate which shows *may* be deleted if available
disk space falls below the threshold you set.  Maxnewest/maxepisodes is
a mechanism to make sure that Myth will *never* save more than N
episodes of a program, regardless of disk space.

Think of it like this:  I set autoexpire on 'unimportant' things that I
record, where I don't care if they get deleted to free up disk space for
other things I want to record.

I set 'maxnewest/maxepisodes' for things like 'The Simpsons' or 'ST:TNG'

that are on several times a day, so my 'Watch Recordings' list doesn't
get cluttered up with more episodes than I can realistically watch.  I
like to have a couple of episodes always hanging around for when I'm in
the mood, but I'm not really concerned with catching *every* re-run.

-JAC
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