On Thursday 20 January 2005 12:46 am, Brad Templeton wrote: > On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 10:26:28PM -0600, David Engel wrote: > > > Is this the expected behaviour? > > > > Yes. As I noted before, priorities are still used to decide what and > > when to record. The way I set things up is like this. I give > > positive priorities to all of the recurring programs that I really > > want to record. I give negative priorities to all of the recurring, > > "filler" stuff I'd like to record but don't care if it gets missed or > > records later. Then, all of the "off-the-cuff" single and find > > records I create get the default, zero priority right in the middle > > where I want them. > > Hmm. I would have expressed the ultimate goal of priorities as follows: > > "Try to record as many of the requested shows as you can. If 2 or > more must conflict (ie. you can't fix it by moving either one of > them) then record the show of higher priority." > > You are saying, if I read you right, that the higher priority for the > series beats out the lower priority movie, even though the problem > could be solved by recording the series later that night?
It works both ways. There's a setting to allow the scheduler to move higher priority stuff to a later showing in favor of lower priority shows. Isaac _______________________________________________ mythtv-dev mailing list mythtv-dev@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-dev
