[mythtv] Update recording file name from command line?

John Pilkington johnpilk222 at gmail.com
Tue Dec 18 09:18:27 UTC 2018


On 18/12/2018 00:09, Richard Shaw wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 3:53 PM Peter Bennett <pb.mythtv at gmail.com 
> <mailto:pb.mythtv at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>     On 12/17/18 11:49 AM, Richard Shaw wrote:
>>     I still use a combined FE/BE in the living room but everywhere
>>     else I use either a Roku, Roku TV, and stream via Plex.
>>
>>     Some channels work find but others have issues with audio sync. It
>>     seems like the video freezes right at the beginning but the audio
>>     does not so it stays out of sync.
>>
>>     I've played around, especially on Plex and forcing it to transcode
>>     on the fly usually works but reduced video quality and the audio
>>     is changed from multi-channel to stereo so it's not an ideal solution.
>>
>>     I noticed that recordings I've saved to videos via Avidemux to MKV
>>     container (video and audio are copied) don't have this problem so
>>     I was thinking of using mkvmerge in a transcode user job to move
>>     all my recordings from TS to MKV container formats.
>>
>>     I plan to write a bash script around this but how do I go about
>>     updating the name of the recording in the database? Mythutil seems
>>     an obvious candidate to have this functionality but it doesn't as
>>     far as I can tell.
>>
>>     Ideas?
>>
>>     Thanks,
>>     Richard
>>
>>
> 
>     Here is a script that runs as a user job to convert the files to mkv
>     format without transcoding, which works better with kodi and maybe
>     with other players. It does not change the file name, that was not
>     necessary for kodi to recognize that it is an mkv file.
> 
>     https://github.com/bennettpeter/mythscripts/blob/master/install/opt/mythtv/bin/userjob_mkv.sh
> 
> 
> Hmm... I'll have to see if MythTV or Plex care about the file extension 
> but seems a dirty hack :)
> 
> It would really be nice if mythtranscode could do lossless H264 but I'll 
> have to ask Santa about that!
> 
> Thanks,
> Richard

I misunderstood your wish to rename your recording.  I use this in 
mythDVBcut to rename after conversion from .ts to .mpg

{{{

    # tell mythDB about new filename and set the 'transcoded' flag
    echo "update recorded set basename='${OUTFILE}', transcoded = 1 
where recordedid = '$recordedid' ; " |
    mysql -N -u${DBUserName} -p${DBPassword} -h${DBLocalHostName} ${DBName}


    # Update the container type, needed for uPnP playback.  Empty will 
work too, if the transcoded flag is set.
    # This is a HACK pending 0.28 release, when mythutil should do it. 
See Ticket #12388

    echo "update recordedfile set basename = '${OUTFILE}', container = 
'MPEG2-PS' where recordedid = '$recordedid' ;" |
    mysql -N -u${DBUserName} -p${DBPassword} -h${DBLocalHostName} ${DBName}

}}}


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