[mythtv-users] Bug? Deleted programs set to rerecord when "max number of episodes" is set

Marc Sherman msherman at projectile.ca
Tue May 6 17:04:51 UTC 2008


Marc Sherman wrote:
> I think I've found a bug in the interaction between a recording rule 
> with max number of episodes and the deleted group.
> 
> I've got a rule (Dora the Explorer) set up with max number of episodes 
> set to 3. I have the Deleted group set up to keep deleted programs for 
> up to 7 days. When the scheduler decides to record a new episode of 
> Dora, it immediately auto-expires an episode from the Deleted group, 
> even though it hasn't been around for 7 days yet, and there are less 
> than 3 non-deleted episodes. The expired episode gets marked for 
> re-recording (duplicate=0) even though is was already deleted.
> 
> I think the main bug is that the max number of episodes code needs to be 
> modified to not count episodes in the deleted group. Alternatively, it 
> should not reset the duplicate flag when it expires an episode from the 
> deleted group.
> 
> Does anyone else see this same behaviour?

A couple days later and no reply... should I enter this into trac, or
report this to a different mailing list?

- Marc


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