[mythtv-users] re-record and delete

[faginbagin]

On 2/7/2014 5:57 PM, Leo Butler wrote:
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>>    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:
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>>    > >   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

Another alternative *might* be to delete the history for an entire series. To do that:
- Highlight a recording you'd like to re-record
- Press Menu
- Select Recording Options -> Edit Recording Schedule
- Select Schedule Info
- Select Previously Recorded
- Press Enter/OK
- Select "Remove all episodes for this title"
I know this will allow previously recorded, watched and deleted episodes to re-record, but it may also allow you to re-record an existing episode. Depends on whether the scheduler queries the recorded table or just the oldrecorded table when deciding whether to record a given episode. Anyone know?

HTH,
Helen