[mythtv-users] Repeating previously recorded...

[Joey Morris]

Jason Bilbrey <jason at bilbrey.me> wrote on Sat, Feb 09, 2013 at 03:29:27PM -0600:
> I was under the impression that MythTV would remember shows it already
> recorded and not record them again even if they were already purged from
> the hard disk...  Now that MythTV has been recording for a month it is
> starting to record shows that it recorded previously.
> 
> If I examine the "oldrecorded" table in MySQL it shows all the shows it's
> ever recorded.  I both instances of the duplicate recording...  The second
> instance shows a "1" (aka true) in the "Duplicate" field of the table.
> 
> Do I have something wrong in my recording rules that is allowing this?  I
> don't want to every record the same tv or movie program ever...

Do they have different program IDs? See
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Duplicate_matching.