[mythtv-users] Restarted backend process and my ongoing recording got 'aborted'

[Michael T. Dean]

On 03/14/2010 08:04 PM, David Whyte wrote:
> The quick question....
>
> In 0.22 is there a new setting where you tell the backend to resume
> recording after a backend restart?
>
> The explanation....
>    
...
> Quite sometime later, I was actually ready to start watching the
> Formula One and was horrified to find that I only had 9 minutes of
> recording according to the OSD.
>    
...
> Luckily, the race gets replayed today so I haven't missed it (although
> I hope no one tells me the result either :P)  I just wonder if there
> is a new setting that I need to check somewhere to get the backend to
> resume recordings after a restart rather than abort them.
>    

Nope.  This is exactly as MythTV has always worked.  For recordings, 
MythTV assumes that a broken recording is worse than a later recording.  
Therefore /because/ there's a repeat of the episode, it chose to not 
resume recording the partial episode and instead wait for the later showing.

If you wanted it to record the in-progress showing, you simply needed to 
tell it to "Record anyway" (or whatever the words are)--basically do a 
recording override for that specific episode that's currently airing.

Mike