[mythtv-users] Rerecord large groups of recordings in digital

John Drescher drescherjm at gmail.com
Wed Aug 21 14:19:48 UTC 2013


On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 10:15 AM, Joseph Fry <joe at thefrys.com> wrote:

> >>> The beauty is, that everything you do in the menu can be accomplished
> >>> by editing the database.  I don't know what exactly "allow this
> >>> episode to rerecord" does... but there is no doubt in my mind that you
> >>> could reproduce this in scale with a few lines of SQL.
> >>
> >> This would be a good approach for me. I am a programmer (actually these
> >> days I program in Qt) but sql update queries will be pretty easy for me
> >> provided I find the right place to update..
> >
> >
> > Just make sure before you start poking raw data in the database you read
> all
> > of the MythTV source code and understand all of the data constraints and
> > requirements, as they aren't expressed in the database.
>
> >> Yesterday I tried deleting all of the 200+ items in oldrecorded for a
> >> particular show expecting it forget the old. That did not help. I had to
> >> still force recording via the upcoming recordings screen of mythweb.
>
> Did you trigger a scheduler run afterward?
>

Yes a few times. That did not help..

John
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