There seems to be no good way up front before running any profiles to test if a particular show and episode might already exist in my output directory. Because the MCE naming is by channel and time, there isn't a way to determine show & episode from the file name. I usually end up renaming the output file to contain show and episode at the end of the ffmpeg process. I'd like a way to test if I might already have a program processed. Today, I can test it at the end of the process, but that's after the system has processed the file, cut commercials, etc...
Let me know if there's a way to do this but I haven't seen anything that's obvious.