[mythtv-users] Long jump from 0.21 to 0.27.4 , mostly OK except audio !!

[Sholla]

On 01/08/15 23:30, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 01/07/2015 08:03 AM, Sholla wrote:
>> I am doing a long jump from 0.21 to 0.27.4 on a fairly new system
>> with pvr-350 and the set top box.
>>
>> Compiled the mythtv from the git sources and installed it. From this
>> mailing list, understood that the myth database cannot be imported.
>
> Not directly, but you can install 0.22 - 0.24 and run mythtv-setup to upgrade your 0.21 database,
> then install 0.27.4 and let it upgrade your database to current.  That said, there's likely data
> corruption in your database (due to more-recent-than-MythTV-0.21 changes to MySQL defaults which
> aren't compatible with MythTV 0.21 database usage), so whether it's worth the (at least) 2-step
> process (several more (and more complicated) steps if you have to fix data corruption) to maintain
> your history is up to you.
>
> Alternatively, you can continue your current approach (setting up a new database) and take any
> unwatched (or archived, if you keep watched shows) shows from your 0.21 system and put them in
> Video Library (formerly called MythVideo).  If you name your video files nicely, it will even pull
> down metadata for the shows for you.  Note, too, that naming your shows is easiest done if you
> "export" the data from your 0.21 system--ideally using mythlink.pl to create a directory of links
> with proper naming that you can use to rename the actual video files (simple enough with a script
> using readlink and mv*** or--at the expense of time and disk writes--using cp -L (possibly
> followed by rm, in a loop)).
Thanks, I will be trying this.

sholla

>
> Mike
>
> *** Though simple enough, implementation is left as an exercise for the reader. ;)  Don't worry,
> though.  I'm no Fermat.
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