Duplicate Shows

[Sketch]

I tried looking around to see about this, and didn't see anything in GB. It would be nice if GBPvr could recognize and not record duplicate shows.

[sub]

There is a 'dont record duplicates' option in the config app, but it will only work for zap2it users.

[jorm]

you can also try rectracker. Not perfect but pretty good.

[KingArgyle]

Don't be modest, Jorm. RecTracker handles about 99.9% of all cases, and works with either XMLTV or Zap2It as sources.

[jorm]

[LilY0da]

Well, I might as well as my rectracker question here...
From what I understand, rectracker is called in PostUpdateEPG.bat with "rectracker -purge"
Am I understanding this correctly in that it purges the RECORDING_SCHEDULE table from shows that are already in rectracker.mdb?
Or does PriorityRecordings.exe also use rectracker.mdb to NOT enter in RECORDING_SCHEDULE shows that have already been recorded?

[jorm]

only the following is true

purges the RECORDING_SCHEDULE table from shows that are already in rectracker.mdb

[KingArgyle]

Slight correction here. CDK Scheduler (PriorityRecording.exe), does use the RecTracker.dll file to check the RecTracker.mdb for shows that have alread been recorded, and when scheduling if you tell it not to record or schedule duplicates, it won't do so.

[LilY0da]

OK, so if I don't want it to enter the shows in RECORDING_SCHEDULE, I have to set <DuplicatesAllowed>No</DuplicatesAllowed> ?

What I don't want, is CDK scheduling 1 episode of a high priority show that I already saw, which will be removed by rectracker - purge later anyway, and my lowest priority show that wasn't scheduled will never be...

Is there a problem with setting this to "no"? I don't see why the default would be "yes"

[KingArgyle]

The default was set to yes to keep compatibility with the way GBPVR had scheduled shows in the past.

You can set it to No and that should make the the default so that if a show has already been scheduled it won't schedule it again. You can also setup a show like the following in the XML file (XRecord's Schedule function also allows you to do this through the front end GUI):

Code:

    <Recording priority="3">
        <Channel>4</Channel>
        <ProgramName>Las Vegas</ProgramName>
        <Quality>Custom2</Quality>
        <CaptureSource>1</CaptureSource>
        <Duplicates>
            <Recorded>No</Recorded>
            <Scheduled>No</Scheduled>
        </Duplicates>
    </Recording>

This basically tells CDK to record the program "Las Vegas" on Channel 4 using CaptureSource 1 but to not record or schedule duplicates. This allows for show by show control of the scheduling of duplicates or not (my prefered way of scheduling shows and controling duplciates).

Plenty more examples working with the XML can be found in this thread:

http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php...hlight=CDK