[mythtv-users] options for upgrade from 0.21

[Jerome Yuzyk]

I knew this day was coming... My trusty Myth box, nearly 8 years old, 
running 24/7 for all but 2 6-month periods and maybe a few half-days for a 
move or upgrade, just threw out the invoice for it today with a tax-records 
purge. CAN$300 with a CAN$180 PVR-500, a little extra RAM, to 1G, and later 
an additional 280G drive for more recordings. 16,005 recordings, over 1059 
shows.

SMART is starting to send ominous signals about /dev/sda1...

So now it's time to make another one for the next eight years. I have the 
gear planned out, might bite the bullet and activate my digital box and 
deal with channel-change and priority issues. Not interested in paying for 
HD. Fortunately I can run the new box in parallel since it has a matching 
PVR-500.

But... I'm on MythTV 0.21 and it's loooonnng-obsolete.

I'd like some advice on my 2 options, as I see them.

1 Capture my old recordings as just videos, forget all my old stuff
  and start fresh.

  If I haaaave to. I'd have to rebuild all my recording rules and do a
  bunch of Never Record for episodes I've already seen.

  Maybe I could extract the Recorded and Recording Rules data from 
  the old setup and import them into the new setup.

  I'm not afraid to look at schemas and write some SQL. It's worth it to 
  me, unless it's an insane idea. Or maybe I could just dump them out to
  give me a list for doing it manually.

2 Install whatever handles the last MythTV release that could migrate 
  from 0.21 (0.25)? Then upgrade everything (OS and Myth) to the latest.

  Can I do that for Fedora? I have time to go through the process.


Anyone with experience upgrading from a way-old Myth?