mythnettv recording priority should be -99

[Kevin Slade]

This is a continuation of discussion in the autoexpire bug.

"recorded.recpriority Range(-99 to 99) Sets the recording priority"
"mythnettv should have a recording priority of -99 so that real tv tuner recordings override downloads... The reason I asked for default recording priority of -99 was so that recordings available via tv tuner would be recorded rather than downloading them via mythnettv. No point in downloading an episode if it is available via tuner. If mythnettv-ted was implemented then a recording priority of -99 for mythettv would be necessary so that TED didn´t download recordings available via tuner."

Above cut + paste to give background info. There is no harm in giving recordings priority of -99 as they will still record if they're not available elsewhere. I would prefer that mythnettv have a lower priority as a source for recordings as a tuner card will record at a higher quality.

[Thomas Mashos (tgm4883)]

Moving my thoughts to this bug.

I disagree with -99 as the mythnettv default. Depending on how people have their other recording schedules setup, this could make it pretty difficult for mythtv to autoexpire old shows. For instance, I have all my shows with priorities ranging from 50 to 99. I then added a show, but forgot to change it's priority (it was 0). I have 1 TB of recording space filled with shows. Whenever this new show with 0 priority was recorded, it was only kept until another show needed to be recorded (a few hours at most). This is due to the way autoexpire works, calculating what is to expire next based on priority, how old, and watched status.

A better solution would be for the user to set 2 priority levels. One to set the priority for each feed, and one as a default priority if the feed one is left out.