[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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