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

[Michael T. Dean]

Dave Sherohman wrote:

>On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 09:30:33AM -0400, Fred Squires wrote:
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>>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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>Agreed.  Or maybe the simplest way to handle this would be to add
>support for having two separate recording schedules for the same
>show (one with high priority and no autoexpire for new episodes and
>another with lower priority and autoexpire for reruns)?  That would
>count the number of episodes separately for new and rerun, but I
>personally don't see that as an issue.
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Pretty sure that has always been possible.  See my other post in this 
thread.

>Something else that could help here would be additional autoexpire
>methods.  AFAICT, "oldest first" is the only option present (in
>0.18.1).  Adding "lowest priority first" and "reruns first" (ideally
>with "by date"/"by priority" suboptions under the rerun setting)
>would definitely make it more flexible for handling Simpsons, etc.
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I think SVN has lowest priority first.  The reruns first--actually 
keying off original airdate--would be a nice addition.

>What I would *really* like to see is something comparable to Tivo's
>"suggestions" feature (it autorecords shows similar to things you've
>said you like when there's extra space available and those recordings
>are the first to go when more space is needed), but I would expect
>that to be a fairly major addition, while multiple schedules per show
>or more autoexpire options would be much simpler to add.
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TVWish and other plugins give you this.

Mike