[mythtv-users] testing impact of "No. of recordings to keep" option

[Manuel McLure]

On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Tom Metro
<tmetro+mythtv-users at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On a MythTV 0.21 installation I have two recording rules for the same show, one recoding new episodes off of one channel, and another recording reruns off of another channel. I'd like to use the "No. of recordings to keep" option to limit the number of reruns that get recorded, but my concern is that the rule will also get applied to the new episodes.
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> I've seen unexpected behavior from the "No. of recordings to keep" feature in the past. For example, my expectation was that it merely blocked future recordings, if the specified count was exceeded. I came to learn that in actuality it will expire all recordings in excess of the count. (And I'm still not sure what triggers the expiration. Is it when the next show matching the recording rule gets recorded, or when space runs low?)
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Actually there's another setting for a recording - "Record new and
expire old". If you set this the oldest recording gets expired and
replaced by the new recording, so you get the N (where N is the value
for "No. of recordings to keep") latest recordings at all times. If
this is unset, then MythTV will block new recordings once you have N
recordings.
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