[mythtv-users] Some confusion on "record weekly" schedules...

[Brad Benson]

On 9/8/05, Alex Brekken <brekkal at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Now I fully understand that Myth should only record 1 of the 2 showings 
> since they're the exact same episode, however I can't figure out why it's 
> electing to record Monday's episode instead of Friday's since Friday is an 
> earlier date. There's no other recording happening on Friday at the same 
> time which would interfere. (I've got dual tuners, so that wouldn't matter 
> anyway) What I would expect to see is that Myth would record Friday's 
> episode, and skip Monday's with an indication on Monday's schedule of "P" 
> for "previously recorded." 
> 
> Does this seem like a problem to anyone else, or am I just misunderstaning 
> how the behavior is supposed to work? 
> 

Yes, there's a fine point of Myth's scheduler that you're missing. When 
attempting to determine which showing of an episode should be recorded, Myth 
looks at many factors (tuner priority, priority for that specific recording 
rule, channel priority, etc). I'm going to assume here that you've set the 
same priority for both of your recording rules. Since the rest of the 
details of those two rules are the same, then both the Friday and Monday 
episodes would have the exact same priority. When Myth sees two showings 
with the same priority, it prefers the one that matches the recording rule 
that was added first. Since you set up the Monday recordings prior to 
setting up the Friday recordings it's most likely choosing the Monday 
recording because that rule was entered first. Incidentally, you might want 
to remove one of those duplicate recording rules and set the other one to 
"Find and record one showing of this title each week". That would allow Myth 
to record one episode each week and still choose between the Friday and 
Monday showings to avoid conflicts.
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