[mythtv-users] if (x!=rerun) {record}

[Fred Squires]

On 10/20/05, Todd Houle <thoule at wesleyan.edu> wrote:
>
> I need a little help running a reruns rule. I'd like the following
> rule for recording, but I can't seem to find where/how to enter it.
>
> I'd like to record a show and keep at most 4 episodes of it. If
> there's anymore, don't record them until I watch the old (this part
> I'm doing). However, if it's not a rerun, then record it anyway -
> either delete and old one, or just record it in addition.
>
> Thanks- you guys are brilliant!
> Todd
>

Right now there's no way to do that, other than manually doing it.
It would be great if you could give new episodes a higher priority and then
tell the scheduler to keep at most maybe 5 episodes and record new and
expire old if the new episodes priority is greater than or equal to the
older episode's. Lower priority should always be deleted before higher in
this case, so that way a non-rerun will be recorded over a rerun instead of
an older non-rerun.
It would work well for the shows like the simpsons, that way you could
always have different repeats to watch but they would never delete the new
episodes when you don't get to them for a while.

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