[mythtv-users] Keeping new shows seperate from syndicate

[Joseph A. Caputo]

On Thursday 11 November 2004 14:34, Kevin Kuphal wrote:
> Joseph A. Caputo wrote:
> >On Thursday 11 November 2004 13:57, Kevin Kuphal wrote:
> >>So you have one schedule or two?  I would have expected that the
> >> two schedules would have operated independently when it comes to
> >> expiration.  From what you said it sounds like an episode from
> >> Schedule 1 is being deleted to make room for an episode from
> >> Schedule 2 which only makes sense if the max episodes code is
> >> looking at titles only and not differentiating between the two
> >> schedules.
> >
> >Exactly.  AFAIK, the "max episodes" feature uses the show title as
> > its key, so it wouldn't matter how many different recording rules
> > you defined, they'd still have the same show title, and thus be
> > considered equal in the eyes of the "max episodes" deletion code.
>
> Was this something discussed before around the auto-expire/max
> episodes discussion?  I would think that this should limit itself to
> recordings for each schedule rather than by title.

I don't think this specific issue was discussed... most of the 
discussion had to do with being able mark a single recorded program 
instance as "Do not auto-expire" and have that be honored by *all* 
auto-delete mechanisms, IIRC.

-JAC