[mythtv-commits] Ticket #1308: Add 'transcoded' flag to recorded table

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#1308: Add 'transcoded' flag to recorded table
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 Reporter:  derek at battams.ca  |       Owner:  ijr 
     Type:  patch             |      Status:  new 
 Priority:  minor             |   Milestone:      
Component:  mythtv            |     Version:  head
 Severity:  medium            |  
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 Background:

 By default, I don't transcode my PVR-250 recordings, but recently started
 to in order to save space on my recordings partition.  I wrote a script
 that I run from cron nightly to queue up recordings that are older than a
 week and then transcode them.  My current work around is to simply use the
 fact that PVR recordings end in '.mpg' while the transcoded files are
 '.nuv'.  I was going to mention my script on the users list for anyone who
 wanted it, but realized that it wasn't generic enough.  It may or may not
 work for people who choose 'lossless transcoding' of MPEG2 files (not
 sure, I've never used it).  It also wouldn't work for people who use
 software encoding.  The attached patch creates a new field in the recorded
 table called 'transcoded' and is updated to '1' when the transcoder
 finishes transcoding a file.  My cron script can then use this info when
 deciding what does and does not need to be transcoded.

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