[mythtv-users] Recording shows and duplicates

[Michael T. Dean]

On 03/10/2008 06:49 PM, Ryan wrote:
> I have a question about how shows are recorded.  Lets say i tell myth to
> record ALL the Seinfeld episodes, and no Duplicates based on Subtitle.
> Great, thats working, so now i start auto expiring ones i watched.  So far
> so good, but now its re-recording ones that i have watched because they are
> no longer in the list.  Well i really dont want that, as i watched it
> already and deleted it, i just want ones that arent listed as being recorded
> already.  How can i tell myth not to record these ones again?

The problem is that 0.20 had the built-in assumption that if you let the 
show autoexpire, you did not watch it.

Thanks to Stuart Morgan, that's no longer the case in 0.21.  He created 
a great new feature (nay, a /major/ feature) allowing Myth to track 
whether you've watched a show or not.

Settings which affect this include:

Automatically mark a recording as watched
If set, when you exit near the end of a recording it will be marked as 
watched. The automatic detection is not foolproof, so do not enable this 
setting if you don't want an unwatched recording marked as watched.

On the "General Playback" page of frontend settings.  If you don't trust 
the automatic detection (or you want to override it after it marks a 
show as watched), you can use the menu in the Watch Recordings screen to 
change the watched flag.

Watched before UNwatched
If set, programs that have been marked as watched will be expired before 
programs that have not been watched.

and

Re-record Watched
If set, programs that have been marked as watched and are auto-expired 
will be re-recorded if they are shown again.

Both on the "General (AutoExpire)" page of frontend settings.

 From your description, you want "Automatically mark a recording as 
watched" enabled (or, at least, explicitly mark them as watched once 
they're watched), "Watched before UNwatched" enabled, and "Re-record 
Watched" disabled.  That means you'll need to change the values of all 
three as you seem to want the opposite of the defaults (the defaults 
make it work like 0.20).

Mike