[mythtv-users] Question about Auto-expire

[Nick Rout]

On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 2:38 PM, Robert Dege <livemotion at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> One more follow up question.  Now that I have Record new and expire old
> enabled and working, is there any way to exempt certain shows from
> auto-expiring?
>
> -Rob

I think you can set an episode to not expire in mythweb and probably
in the watch recordings screen (at a guess the menu key...)

>
>
> On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 12:46 PM, Robert Dege <livemotion at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I would like to record and keep 20 episodes of Sesame Street on my mythbox
>> at all times.  As new episodes are recorded, old episodes can be deleted.
>>
>> I tried to set this up in the Recording Schedule by enabling auto-expire,
>> and setting "No. of recordings to keep" to 20.  However, based on the
>> documentation, auto-expire works primarily on disk space usage.  Plus, once
>> 20 episodes of the show have been recorded, mythtv won't record anymore
>> until I manually delete the old episodes.
>>
>> Am I missing something?  Is it possible to implement this setup?
>>
>> MythTV Version : v0.25
>> MythTV Branch : fixes/0.25
>> Network Protocol : 72
>> Library API : 0.25.20120408-1
>> QT Version : 4.8.1
>>
>>
>> Thank you
>>
>> -Robert
>
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