[mythtv-users] Why does mythtv decide to postpone a recording?

[Nick Morrott]

On 14/04/07, Marco Nelissen <marcone at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> A few times now, MythTV decided it would not record an episode of
> Grey's Anatomy because the same episode is on again a week later.
> The scheduled recordings screen says something like "won't record -
> later showing", and shows it plans to record the week after.
> There are no conflicts (Grey's is one of two shows I record that
> day, and I have three tuners).
> So why does mythtv insist on recording an episode a week late (running
> the risk of a schedule change causing it to miss the episode entirely),
> when it could have just recorded it when it was on the first time?

Marco,

It'll be down to the scheduler's scoring for the showing - if you post
the output from 'mythbackend --printsched' grepped for Grey's Anatomy
it'll likely show that the repeated showing has a higher score than
the first showing.

Other factors that influence the behaviour are number of tuners, other
scheduled programs around the time of the Grey's recording, global
pre/post roll, and the reschedule higher priorities option.

Nick
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