stops at 44 episodes

[armophob]

I have been searching through these posts and have not seen anyone mention this trouble. I have mine set up to record Southpark and Futurama. When 44 episodes have been recorded. It seems to stop recording episodes. Is this a known issue? In the meantime I am trying to figure out if it is dumping the oldest and keeping a 44 number or if it is just not adding episodes. More to come.

[mtnagel]

Wow! 44 episodes, huh? Are you trying to collect the whole series on your HR20?

Anyway, did you have a Tivo before the HR20? If so, did you ever record more than 44 episodes of one series to it?

I'm just curious, because we can add this to the list of arbitrary limits placed on this system like the 50 SL limit. I know I'll never hit 44 of one series, but this is just ridiculous. I can almost understand the 50 SL limit IF it truly affects stability of the system, but if you want to fill your system with 400 South Parks, then why would the system care? I know I've had more than 44 episodes of different series on there and it didn't care, so why would it care if they are all the same series?

[armophob]

Yes, I had the tivo version first. I had to upgrade to get local channels in HD. I have not gotten rid of it yet. I may just use it to record and this one for live viewing only. I never got up to 44 episodes before because I could trust tivo to catch all new episodes by selecting new episodes. This thing is unreliable and I have to have it set on new and repeat. Plus its nice to have some spare shows saved for when there is nothing on.
I may have to select a third show with lots of episodes to prove it. But I think I missed a couple new South Parks due to this thing stopping at 44.

[PoitNarf]

All 44 episodes are still stored on the hard drive in the HR20?

[armophob]

Yes. I left the Futurama 44 alone to see if it would record a 45th on its own tonight and it didn't. I did delete a bunch of South Parks to be sure I catch any new ones I missed. I have not tried to force a record to see it it will do.

[PoitNarf]

Very curious. I doubt many HR20 owners would be in a similar situation with so many episodes of a particular show stored on the hard drive. But still, I'm sure everyone would like to know if this is by design or in fact a newly discovered bug.

Perhaps we could get a response from D* on this? (looks in Earls direction :D )

[jd001982]

I'm just curious, because we can add this to the list of arbitrary limits placed on this system like the 50 SL limit. I know I'll never hit 44 of one series, but this is just ridiculous. I can almost understand the 50 SL limit IF it truly affects stability of the system, but if you want to fill your system with 400 South Parks, then why would the system care? I know I've had more than 44 episodes of different series on there and it didn't care, so why would it care if they are all the same series?

There is no magic "44". There is an arbitrary 50 prioritizer items limit, there is an arbitrary 100 history items limit (before a "please wait" is put up), but not a "44" limit.

And no, none of the arbitrary limits affect performance or system stability. They're just hard-wired magic numbers. Really. :hurah:

[Knon2000]

As far as I know, there have been no new SouthPark episodes released lately. When were you expecting there to be a new episode?

[mtnagel]

There is no magic "44". There is an arbitrary 50 prioritizer items limit, there is an arbitrary 100 history items limit (before a "please wait" is put up), but not a "44" limit.

And no, none of the arbitrary limits affect performance or system stability. They're just hard-wired magic numbers. Really. :hurah::confused: Did you read the OP or just skip to the 2nd post? The OP is saying that once 44 episodes of one series are recorded, it won't record anymore. And I know about the 50 SL limit and I've started a thread about it. And where are you getting your information that's it's just an arbitrary number? I'm pretty sure no one has definitely said that before.

[PoitNarf]

Just bumping this up as I don't want this one to die. Very interested about the underlying cause of this. Anyone ever run into a similar instance of this problem?

[Earl Bonovich]

There is no magic "44". There is an arbitrary 50 prioritizer items limit, there is an arbitrary 100 history items limit (before a "please wait" is put up), but not a "44" limit.

And no, none of the arbitrary limits affect performance or system stability. They're just hard-wired magic numbers. Really. :hurah:


100 History Item Limit?
Tell that to my one HR20 that has a history list of over 800+ items.

Would not surprise me that it might only display 100, then have to load the next 100, then the next 100...
That is a fairly normal pagination method, since most people in those lists are only intrested in the top 25-50 entries... so why waste the resources and time to load all 800

[PoitNarf]

Earl, any insight on the problem posed by the OP?

[Earl Bonovich]

Earl, any insight on the problem posed by the OP?

Nope... Nothing yet.

Earl

[armophob]

I won't be able to test this until Tuesday. That is when it has an episode of Futurama set to record. That would be a 45th recording. Alll the episodes until then are duplicates of what is already recorded and it is not scheduling them to record. I will say that since clearing out about 20 South Parks it is recording them as they come on.

[armophob]

I am downloading the new 011b tonight..in progress. Thanks for the heads up. This may or may not eliminate the 44 issue even if it was not a consideration. I will post when I have any more feedback.

[PoitNarf]

I am downloading the new 011b tonight..in progress. Thanks for the heads up. This may or may not eliminate the 44 issue even if it was not a consideration. I will post when I have any more feedback.

Thanks for the updates armophob.