[mythtv-users] What's the difference between "record new episodes" and "exclude old episodes"?
Brian Wood
beww at beww.org
Thu Mar 11 22:59:34 UTC 2010
On Thursday 11 March 2010 03:53:13 pm Robert Shields wrote:
> Myth can look at the original air date - if it is before the current date,
> it doesn't record. In short, it can detect reruns.
True, but in some cases it makes odd decisions. For example something like the
"CBS News" it may show the original airdate for that program, which is clearly
not a rerun.
Nice feature, as long as you understand the limitations and are careful.
A safer thing (at least for me) is to rely on the "already recorded" flag to
prevent recording duplicates. Obviously without specific episodic information
this is useless. Stations sometimes only send generic information to the
database, so you have to blame the individual station or network, not SD, when
this happens.
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