[mythtv-users] Prioritize new episodes...

Mike Perkins mikep at randomtraveller.org.uk
Thu Sep 15 16:39:19 UTC 2011


On 15/09/11 15:14, Robin Smith wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 9:33 AM, George Galt<george.galt at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>
>> My issue is that I **want** it to re-record episodes that it has
>> already recorded and that were expired from the system.  I don't
>> believe I've found a setting that says "treat expired recordings as
>> 'delete and re-record'"  The system seems to always treat them as
>> "delete (and do not re-record)".
>>
>
> I don't have the answer, other than to say that is NOT how my MythTV
> behaves...
> I have a storage rule for my kids' shows that says keep up to 3 episodes. It
> is set to delete oldest. I find if it is deleted by this rule, it WILL
> re-record if the episode re-airs. I did not have to pick a specific setting
> for this to occur, it just did, so I am not sure what is different between
> what I am doing and what you are doing.
>
Perhaps your 'episodes greater than 3' that are being deleted, are not yet 
marked as watched. That would cause the system to attempt to re-record them.

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Mike Perkins



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