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

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Wed Nov 3 22:52:45 UTC 2010


  On 11/03/2010 06:46 PM, Deyan wrote:
> 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?

Then you need to tell MythTV not to automatically re-record anything 
that you let auto-expire.

Re-record Watched
If set, programs that have been marked as watched and are auto-expired 
will be re-recorded if they are shown again.

(defaults to enabled)

/and/ set the episodes as watched after you watch them or:

Automatically mark a recording as watched
If set, when you exit near the end of a recording it will be marked as 
watched. The automatic detection is not foolproof, so do not enable this 
setting if you don't want an unwatched recording marked as watched.

(defaults to disabled)

Mike


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