Mailing List Archive: Some shows being skipped for recording issue

Some shows being skipped for recording issue

Mar 26, 2003, 3:22 PM

Post #1 of 6 (1713 views)

I'm seeing a problem where if I already have a show recorded, and
another episode of the same show comes up (be it a day later or 0
minutes later), if the second episode has the same description, it
refuses to record the second episode.

Now this can be a good feature for those shows that get repeated
several times during the week, but some shows don't get much detail in
their descriptions. Actually, some shows just have the same
description no matter what episode it is. And that means that new
episodes are not getting recroded.

Is there some way to turn off this uniqueness constraint on the shows,
or can someone point out to me where in the code it's doing this
logic?

thanks,
Cliff Draper Sun Microsystems, Forte Tools
My opinions may or may not reflect those of my employer.
---------------------------- food for thought ---------------------------
Professionals are predictable, it's the amateurs that are dangerous.

Re: Some shows being skipped for recording issue [ In reply to ]

cisip at sprintmail

Mar 26, 2003, 6:00 PM

Post #2 of 6 (1671 views)

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I have received a reply from myth dev regarding this. It was suggested
that you run mysql and then at the prompt type "delete from
oldrecorded;" (without the quotes but with the semicolon) and then
exit. To my understanding this will clear your oldrecorded so that
mythtv will forget that it has recorded the show before. As far as the
code that does this, maybe if you can find the code that inserts this
info into oldrecorded. Try this at your own risk. Backup your database
first. I have not really tested it yet because I am struggling with
another DB error that apparently results from two encoders recording the
same show at the same time to the same file on a 2 tuner system.

On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 17:22, Cliff Draper wrote:
> I'm seeing a problem where if I already have a show recorded, and
> another episode of the same show comes up (be it a day later or 0
> minutes later), if the second episode has the same description, it
> refuses to record the second episode.
>
> Now this can be a good feature for those shows that get repeated
> several times during the week, but some shows don't get much detail in
> their descriptions. Actually, some shows just have the same
> description no matter what episode it is. And that means that new
> episodes are not getting recroded.
>
> Is there some way to turn off this uniqueness constraint on the shows,
> or can someone point out to me where in the code it's doing this
> logic?
>
> thanks,
> Cliff Draper Sun Microsystems, Forte Tools
> My opinions may or may not reflect those of my employer.
> ---------------------------- food for thought ---------------------------
> Professionals are predictable, it's the amateurs that are dangerous.
>
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Chris <cisip@sprintmail.com>

Re: Some shows being skipped for recording issue [ In reply to ]

Cliff.Draper at Sun

Mar 26, 2003, 7:28 PM

Post #3 of 6 (1667 views)

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Thanks for the info. Until I figure out a good way to do this, I'll
probably write a script (read "kludge") that deletes entries from the
oldrecorded table for shows that tend to have duplicate entries. And
then run that script every day.

From: Chris <cisip@sprintmail.com>
Date: 26 Mar 2003 20:00:39 -0500
> I have received a reply from myth dev regarding this. It was suggested
> that you run mysql and then at the prompt type "delete from
> oldrecorded;" (without the quotes but with the semicolon) and then
> exit. To my understanding this will clear your oldrecorded so that
> mythtv will forget that it has recorded the show before. As far as the
> code that does this, maybe if you can find the code that inserts this
> info into oldrecorded. Try this at your own risk. Backup your database
> first. I have not really tested it yet because I am struggling with
> another DB error that apparently results from two encoders recording the
> same show at the same time to the same file on a 2 tuner system.

Cliff Draper Sun Microsystems, Forte Tools
My opinions may or may not reflect those of my employer.
---------------------------- food for thought ---------------------------
Professionals are predictable, it's the amateurs that are dangerous.

Re: Some shows being skipped for recording issue [ In reply to ]

jcaputo1 at comcast

Mar 26, 2003, 9:02 PM

Post #4 of 6 (1666 views)

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A new behavior as of 0.8 is that these episodes will show up in the
"Show Recording Conflicts" screen as greyed-out (they used to not be
there at all). So, at least now you know when something is being
skipped. All we need now is a UI to come up when you hit Space on one
of those items and allow you to un-suppress the recording for that
instance.

-Joe C.

On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 17:22, Cliff Draper wrote:
> I'm seeing a problem where if I already have a show recorded, and
> another episode of the same show comes up (be it a day later or 0
> minutes later), if the second episode has the same description, it
> refuses to record the second episode.
>
> Now this can be a good feature for those shows that get repeated
> several times during the week, but some shows don't get much detail in
> their descriptions. Actually, some shows just have the same
> description no matter what episode it is. And that means that new
> episodes are not getting recroded.
>
> Is there some way to turn off this uniqueness constraint on the shows,
> or can someone point out to me where in the code it's doing this
> logic?
>
> thanks,
> Cliff Draper Sun Microsystems, Forte Tools
> My opinions may or may not reflect those of my employer.
> ---------------------------- food for thought ---------------------------
> Professionals are predictable, it's the amateurs that are dangerous.
>
> _______________________________________________
> mythtv-users mailing list
> mythtv-users@snowman.net
> http://lists.snowman.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: Some shows being skipped for recording issue [ In reply to ]

johnmythtv at crombe

Mar 26, 2003, 9:07 PM

Post #5 of 6 (1673 views)

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Another thing we need (which might also solve this problem), is the ability
to control how many copies of a show to keep. If I record "7th Heaven" for
my daughter any time it appears on any channels, I think I get about 3
recordings PER DAY! Well, let that baby run for a week and I've got a
couple dozen of those things sucking up space! I'd much rather be able to
set it to "Keep the most recent n recordings" like I can with TiVo and
ReplayTV. That would be awesome.

JC

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joseph A. Caputo" <jcaputo1@comcast.net>
To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users@snowman.net>
Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 11:02 PM
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Some shows being skipped for recording issue

> A new behavior as of 0.8 is that these episodes will show up in the
> "Show Recording Conflicts" screen as greyed-out (they used to not be
> there at all). So, at least now you know when something is being
> skipped. All we need now is a UI to come up when you hit Space on one
> of those items and allow you to un-suppress the recording for that
> instance.
>
> -Joe C.
>
>
> On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 17:22, Cliff Draper wrote:
> > I'm seeing a problem where if I already have a show recorded, and
> > another episode of the same show comes up (be it a day later or 0
> > minutes later), if the second episode has the same description, it
> > refuses to record the second episode.
> >
> > Now this can be a good feature for those shows that get repeated
> > several times during the week, but some shows don't get much detail in
> > their descriptions. Actually, some shows just have the same
> > description no matter what episode it is. And that means that new
> > episodes are not getting recroded.
> >
> > Is there some way to turn off this uniqueness constraint on the shows,
> > or can someone point out to me where in the code it's doing this
> > logic?
> >
> > thanks,
> > Cliff Draper Sun Microsystems, Forte Tools
> > My opinions may or may not reflect those of my employer.
> > ---------------------------- food for
thought ---------------------------
> > Professionals are predictable, it's the amateurs that are dangerous.
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > mythtv-users mailing list
> > mythtv-users@snowman.net
> > http://lists.snowman.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
>
>
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>
>

Re: Some shows being skipped for recording issue [ In reply to ]

garza at cjas

Mar 26, 2003, 9:59 PM

Post #6 of 6 (1666 views)

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hmm, but what if the two shows are right after each other? i've had
this come up when I try to record a channel which is doing a "marathon"
of a show i wanna record. Only the first one gets recorded.

On Wednesday, March 26, 2003, at 08:28 PM, Cliff Draper wrote:

> Thanks for the info. Until I figure out a good way to do this, I'll
> probably write a script (read "kludge") that deletes entries from the
> oldrecorded table for shows that tend to have duplicate entries. And
> then run that script every day.
>
> From: Chris <cisip@sprintmail.com>
> Date: 26 Mar 2003 20:00:39 -0500
>> I have received a reply from myth dev regarding this. It was
>> suggested
>> that you run mysql and then at the prompt type "delete from
>> oldrecorded;" (without the quotes but with the semicolon) and then
>> exit. To my understanding this will clear your oldrecorded so that
>> mythtv will forget that it has recorded the show before. As far as
>> the
>> code that does this, maybe if you can find the code that inserts this
>> info into oldrecorded. Try this at your own risk. Backup your
>> database
>> first. I have not really tested it yet because I am struggling with
>> another DB error that apparently results from two encoders recording
>> the
>> same show at the same time to the same file on a 2 tuner system.
>
> Cliff Draper Sun Microsystems, Forte Tools
> My opinions may or may not reflect those of my employer.
> ---------------------------- food for thought
> ---------------------------
> Professionals are predictable, it's the amateurs that are dangerous.
> _______________________________________________
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> mythtv-users@snowman.net
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>