[mythtv-users] My experience with MythTV annoyances, 0.20-fixes version

[Boleslaw Ciesielski]

Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 10/30/06 04:08, Yeechang Lee wrote:
>> mythtranscode doesn't yet use the 0.20 truncated-delete feature to get
>> rid of originals after each transcode. I followed Michael Dean's
>> suggestion at
>> <URL:http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/230560#230560>
>> to preserve the originals and delete them when no recording is
>> occurring
>>
> Thanks for the reminder that I promised to look into allowing 
> transcoding deletes to use the truncation stuff is a good idea...  :)

I was wondering if mythtranscode could be made to send the "delete" 
command to the backend instead of factoring out (or duplicating) the 
truncation code.

But I don't know if mythtranscode is meant to be runnable standalone as 
well, with no backend running?

Bolek