[mythtv-users] Plex integration

[Michael T. Dean]

On 12/30/2015 02:21 PM, Matt Emmott wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 6:46 AM, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On 12/07/2015 06:59 AM, Matt Emmott wrote:
>>
>>> One important piece is that the symlinks you create don't automatically
>>> delete when the recordings go away, so Plex thinks they're still in your
>>> library and you get a lot of file not found errors.
>>>
>> https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Mythlink.pl#Usage
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>> Note that when specifying |--filename| or |--chanid| and |--starttime|,
>> deletion of old symlinks is suppressed. Therefore, anyone using this script
>> in a user job or with the event system should still run the script
>> occasionally without the |--filename| or |--chanid| and |--starttime|
>> arguments to allow removal of links that referred to recordings since
>> deleted. Alternatively, you may use a script triggered on "Recording
>> deleted" and "Recording expired" to remove the specific link when its
>> recording is removed.
>> -----
>>
>> So, if you use the alternate option, you could have the link deleted
>> immediately upon recording deletion/expiration, so that there's never a
>> link to a non-existent recording.
>>
>> Mike
>
> Right but the problem with that is that it recreates all the symlinks from
> scratch, which creates all new timestamps. Then Plex has to reindex
> everything, which takes some time (I have 4TB of recordings). More
> importantly though browsing shows by most recently added doesn't work
> because they all have the same file creation timestamp.

No, as I said, the alternate option.  To quote, again:
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Alternatively, you may use a script triggered on "Recording
deleted" and "Recording expired" to remove the specific link when its
recording is removed.
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Mike