[mythtv-users] Schedule with Maxepisodes records one too many with back-to-back recordings

[Karl Newman]

On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 12:39 PM, David Engel <david at istwok.net> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 02:46:06PM -0400, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>> On 08/26/2012 12:46 PM, Karl Newman wrote:
>> >Well, I've been dealing with this issue for several years but now I've
>> >started watching a show that triggers this every day and it's finally
>> >annoying enough that I thought I'd dig into it more. I found this old
>> >ticket: http://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/6438 which seems to address
>> >the situation I have. It's marked as fixed, but that bug might have
>> >been for a slightly more specific situation. Basically, I have a
>> >recording rule with "No. of recordings to keep" set to 3 and "Record
>> >new and expire old" unselected. Normally, the schedule works correctly
>> >and I always keep 3 episodes around. However, if there are 2 episodes
>> >aired back-to-back (on the same channel) and I have one less than the
>> >maximum episodes recorded, Myth will record the first episode as it
>> >should but then it will record the second episode as well. Then after
>> >it has finished recording, the auto-expire code will notice there is
>> >one too many and proceed to expire the oldest recording. To work
>> >around this, I have to look at the upcoming recordings and manually
>> >tell the second airing not to record. The above mentioned ticket had a
>> >patch which also checked for any recordings in-progress, but for some
>> >reason it was rejected. I do have a 90 second soft pre and post-record
>> >set up; not sure if that might be affecting this.
>> >
>> >Should I revive this old ticket, or create a new one?
>>
>> If it's doing it again, then create a new ticket.  You may refer to
>> the old ticket, if it's related, but since the previous issue was
>> fixed, this is not the same issue, so should not be the same ticket.
>
> Yes, please create a new ticket.  It's the same symptom, but a totally
> different bug that was introduced when the rsTuning status was added.
> And yes, I have the fix wating! :)
>
> David
> --
> David Engel
> david at istwok.net

Done. Here it is: http://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/11049

Thanks,

Karl