[mythtv-users] HDHR + Over the Air + Sony Network Media Player + Buffalo NAS

Craig Treleaven ctreleaven at cogeco.ca
Fri Dec 16 17:38:19 UTC 2011


At 10:53 AM -0600 12/16/11, Jeremy Jones wrote:
>On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 9:54 PM, Jeff Tucker 
><<mailto:jefftucker at gmail.com>jefftucker at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>So basically I recorded a TV episode and once it completed its 
>recording I ran <http://mythlink.pl>mythlink.pl to create the 
>organized/readable links. MiniDLNA is running so I assumed that it 
>would have updated itself with the newest folders/videos.
>
>Yes, you can set up a user job to run mythlink for that recording 
>only.  I also have a cron job setup to run mythlink nightly, so that 
>I can clean up the links to deleted recordings.
>
>[...] The cron job is necessary though, otherwise you will end up 
>with a bunch of links to files that don't exist.

Minor point, but my strategy is to refresh ALL the links every time a 
recording ends.  Only takes a few seconds and I've never seen any 
noticeable impact on either backend or frontend activities on that 
machine.  Maybe if you have multiple hundreds of recordings, it would 
be different.

Craig
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