I saw someone mention somewhere that you could have Mythtv remove the ref to a recording in the DB when it autoexpired. That way it would rerecord the show when it came back on. Anybody know how to do this? I couldn't find a menu option for it.

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I am not at my system at the moment so I can't tell you the exact details but what it sounds like you want is in the recording profile for the show. You can set an option of whether to record duplicates or not

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No, I don't want duplicates. The way it currently works AFAIK is that as soon as something is recorded, it gets put in the DB so that it won't record again. However, if you don't get a chance to watch it, and it auto-expires, it stays in the DB. So it never gets recorded again, even though you never saw it. What I want is to remove it from the DB when it autoexpires so that it'll record the episode again when it next comes on.

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Um, in that case, in your recording options you set it to allow re-recording. I believe that's how it works. I.e. there's an option of 'delete' or 'delete and allow re-recording' so I imagine the same thing exists in the scheduling option.

Yeah, I'd seen the "delete/delete and allow to rerecord" option when I manually deleted a recording. Didn't see it in the scheduling options, but I haven't looked too thoroughly. I'll check again when I get home.

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Otherwise you can schedule it as normal and then go into Upcoming Recordings and pick 'Forget Old' next to the show you want to re-record.

Gonz

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If I'm gonna do that, I might as well just delete shows to keep the drive from filling up. I'm looking for an automatic way for it to rerecord any shows that I didn't get a chance to watch.

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It sounds like in your situtation, you need A. a bigger hard drive, or B. a way to disable the auto-pruning and just have it keep every show forever. I believe there is an option somewhere, deep within some menu subset, that allows you to turn it off.

Neither option works for me. I already have a 750GB drive in there, and I don't want to keep every show forever. I don't care if a show gets deleted before I watch it. Most of what I have my box recording are shows that don't need to be watched in order(Mythbusters, Trucks, Musclecar, etc). I just want to make sure that if it does delete a show, that it rerecords it later when it comes back on.

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There used to be a recording option for this, but I'm not sure where it got moved to. Aha, looks like they changed the description, I think It's one of the "check for duplicates" options when you create the recording schedule. Set it to only check in "current recordings" and it should record stuff that has been expired.

Well, I did some digging in the mythwiki yesterday. It looks like they've added a switch to do what I want. I assume it's in 0.20 since I have 0.19 and don't see it. I'm gonna try upgrading to 0.20 this wknd and see what happens.

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Well, I upgraded to 0.20 and I still couldn't find the option. Guess I'll have to do some more digging.

Well, the manual says the option is available, but I can't find it.

http://mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/User_M ... e_Settings

Anybody know where it is?

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Did you ever get this figured out? I have been wondering the same thing.

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Nope. Since I have a 750GB drive and only record SD which I then transcode, I haven't even come close to filling the drive. So atm it's not a high priority for me. I figure I have time to wait 'til Cecil releases a .20 version.

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