[mythtv-users] possible bug in 0.28 mythtranscode

Mark Perkins perkins1724 at hotmail.com
Sat Aug 6 02:11:58 UTC 2016


On 6 August 2016 9:26:59 AM ACST, Peter Bennett <cats22 at comcast.net> wrote:
>On 08/05/2016 05:21 PM, George Bingham wrote:
>> I do much the same thing for some of my shows, and I have found that
>> if my script makes a copy of the original recording into the original
>> storage directory, but with a '.tmp' extension, then the
>mythtranscode
>> step will behave as expected. 
>>
>You can save time and disk space by making a hard link instead of a
>copy.
>
>ln xxxxxx.ts xxxxxx.tmp
>
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Might need to double check (i didnt) but IIRC it will expect the format

ln xxxxxx.ts xxxxxx.ts.tmp


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