In embodiments of a method, system, and device for deduplicating recordings of an audiovisual content, while a stream time is at least equal to a recording start time, and while the stream time has not yet reached a recording end time, a next chunk start time is determined and a new current chunk of the plurality of chunks is recorded, repeatedly until the next chunk start time has been reached. Chunks that each have identical chunk start times and identical chunk end times are deduplicated.