[mythtv-users] Feature Request: Max number of recordings of a show per day

[Nick]

On 8/21/05, Bryan Halter <bhalter at armyofpenguins.com> wrote:
> It would be nice if in addition to a maximum number of episodes to be
> stored there were a way to set the maximum number of episodes of a show
> to be recorded in a day.  The reason I suggest that is that on a normal
> day Law and Order is only on about twice but if they have a marathon and
> show a bunch more episodes the normal retention policy causes all but
> the last 2 not to be kept, but all the episodes get recorded unless
> something with higher priority is on inbetween.  The result is that
> things that normally would get recorded don't and from the end user's
> point of view only 2 episodes of Law and Order got recorded.  I realize
> this can all be fixed by knowing ahead of time and tweaking the settings
> in MythWeb or in mythfrontend but it would be nice not to have to.

What about setting it to record the show at all times on the channel,
using no dupe policy, no auto-expire, and setting it to store 0
recordings. I am under the impression (perhaps misguided ...) that
this should record every episode and not delete any.

Nick