[mythtv-users] Duplicate recordings for the Tonight Show with Jay Leno

[David Engel]

On Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 01:21:00PM -0700, Deyan wrote:
> Every once in a while I'd get a repeat of the Tonight Show to be
> recorded although my rule specifies to "Exclude Repeat Episodes" and
> the program id matches the id of what is in the oldrecorded table.
> 
> Looking at the program table all rows have the previouslyshown flag
> set to 0 (false) so maybe this is what is causing the issue but I
> wanted to know if there was a way to exclude these episodes from being
> recorded again.
> 
> Here are links to the contents of the program and oldrecorded tables,
> and the mythbackend --testschedule.
> 
> http://rapidshare.com/files/428735103/testschedule.txt
> http://rapidshare.com/files/428735389/sql.out

The duplicate column in oldrecorded is 0 for the episode that was
previously recorded.  That can only happen if someone chose one of the
"allow re-record" options in the Watch Recordings or Previously
Recorded screens.

David
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David Engel
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