[mythtv-users] maxnewest | maxepisodes | autoexpire

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Wed Aug 4 11:05:14 EDT 2004


Chris Strom wrote:

>On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 04:03:57PM +0200, Torben Jensen wrote:
>  
>
>>If used med maxepisodes, like "the Simpsons", I could easiely imagine
>>seeing the greatest episode ever,
>>
Trilogy of Error--which was just on (around here) Aug 1st--so now I have 
the best episode ever and "The Worst Episode Ever" (actual episode title :).

>> and wanting to keep it around, to show
>>to others, or view again - if a user actively marks something not to be
>>deleted, it should simply not be deleted!!
>>    
>>
>I would agree with you, if Myth had a mechanism for marking a recording
>as non-deletable, but (at least based on Joseph's response), there is no
>such concept supported by Myth.  I had thought that's what
>autoexpire did, but that's just for reaching disk space limits.  Would
>be nice if it could be overloaded though to apply to both?
>  
>
You could always move it to MythVideo.  Doing so has the added benefit 
of helping to clean out your list of recordings.

Mike


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