[mythtv-users] re-record and delete
Leo Butler
leo.butler at member.ams.org
Fri Feb 7 22:57:52 UTC 2014
>
> From: John P Poet <jppoet at gmail.com>
>
> On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 3:20 PM, Leo Butler <leo.butler at member.ams.org>wrote:
>
> > > On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 4:57 PM, Leo Butler <leo.butler at member.ams.org
> > >wrote:
> > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Leo Butler wrote, on 07/02/14 19:27:
> > > > > > Hi, I just changed tuners from an old analog tuner to the
> > HDHR3-CC. I
> > > > > > see that the recordings made by the HDHR are smaller and of
> > better
> > > > > > quality.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I have a fair number of recordings which I would like to have
> > > > > > re-recorded with the new tuner, and have the old recording
> > deleted at
> > > > > > that time. How can I do this in a reasonable way?
> > > > >
> > > > > I think you can say "allow rerecord" on the menu. And then you'd
> > > > > manually delete after it had. But there may be a better way...
> > > >
> > > > Thanks.
> > > > I don't see a way to do this through the recording rules menu. Doing
> > > > what you suggest recording-by-recording would be too time consuming,
> > > > so I am looking for an alternative, better way.
> > >
> > > From: Phil Bridges <gravityhammer at gmail.com>
> > >
> > > You could add them to a playback group and then delete/rerecord the
> > > playback group.
> >
> > If I do that, are the recordings deleted immediately? What I am trying
> > to do is to replace an old recording with a new one, but only when the
> > new one becomes available. Would your suggestion approach do that?
>
>
> There is an example clause under the "Custom Record" option of "Re-record
> SDTV in HDTV". It seems to look for any current recording without the HDTV
> flag set, and records the same show if it sees it in the guide with the
> HDTV flag set. That would not delete the existing recording, but you
> could easily do that yourself once the new HDTV recording shows up. Using
> it, or a variation of it is probably your best bet.
John, thanks, the key phrase was "custom record". I think I can whip
up a custom record query, and then run a script as a user job after
the recording finishes to clean-up the old recording. Does that seem right?
Leo
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