[mythtv-users] Custom Priority for "Low Quality"

David Engel david at istwok.net
Fri Jan 20 20:32:17 UTC 2012


On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 01:21:24PM -0600, James Roberts wrote:
> After getting my HDHR Prime, my house has gone full blown MythTV, chunking
> the cable boxes and loving the freedom.  What they don't realize is that we
> are slowly squeezing my little 500 GB drive to death.  I'm trying to be a
> bit of a space miser until disk prices drop some.  I'm part way through
> getting some transcoding solutions in place.  In the meantime, and probably
> even after, I'd like to get a custom priority to "prefer" recordings marked
> as "Low Quality" record off of the SD channel instead.  A perfect example
> of this is cartoons. Since I've set a general rule for HDTV Priority, I'm
> getting all of my and my wife's shows just like I want them.  But, I'd just
> assume Loony Tunes, Phineas and Ferb, and other recordings record off the
> SD channel.  I'd like to set up a priority for recordingprofiles.name of
> 'Low Quality' to give priority to channels (or programs) that are NOT HDTV.
>  I'm slowly working my way through the schema trying to fix it, but if
> someone can put it together that either has already done it, or for whom it
> is trivial, I'd appreciate it.

Completely untested, but you probably want something like the following

  program.hdtv = 0 AND RECTABLE.profile='Low Quality'

David
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