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

[Deyan]

On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 15:06, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
>  On 11/03/2010 06:00 PM, David Engel wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>
> Such as happens when a user accidentally scrolled to "Delete, and allow
> re-record" instead of "Delete" (or "Yes, and allow re-record" instead of
> "Yes, delete it" if in the delete menu).
>
> (I've done this before, myself.)
>

I never delete these. There is a max of 3 episodes kept and the oldest
one gets expired. Granted I don't watch every single of them but I
have other similar rules and only see this behavior with the Tonight
Show.

Is this how it should work?

Thanks,
Deyan