[mythtv-users] re-introducing old recordings to a new setup

[John Pilkington]

On 24/01/16 16:26, R. G. Newbury wrote:
> On 01/24/2016 06:02 AM, John Pilkington wrote:
>> On 24/01/16 01:37, R. G. Newbury wrote:
>>> On 01/23/2016 07:42 PM, HP-mini wrote:
>>>> On Sat, 2016-01-23 at 14:42 -0700, Jerome Yuzyk wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Before I migrated from 0.21 to 0.27 I saved a few recordings off to
>>>>> the side by copying and renaming them, still keeping the .mpg
>>>>> extension - I did no transcoding. They were movies that I had edited
>>>>> to down to scenes with a car or cars I'm interested in.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> How can I re-introduced those recordings to my setup now? Ideally I'd
>>>>> like to have a show name like "My Shows" and keep them with my other
>>>>> recordings as episodes. I don't use MythVideo so I'd prefer to avoid
>>>>> using that and keep everything visible in Watch Recordings.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Could that be possible?
>>>>>
>>>> Too late now but mytharchive (to a file) is an excellent & overlooked
>>>> feature that allows you to export/import recordings into anyone's
>>>> mythtv
>>>> recording dB.
>>>>
>>>> There are old scripts that attempt to create the necessary dB table
>>>> entries (to import as recording). I can't locate one right now.
>>>
>>> I have been using myth.rebuilddatabase.pl for many years. It finds files
>>> in the directory which are NOT included in the db, and leads you through
>>> entering the necessary info: giving a channel number, title, sub-title,
>>> and file name. The file name is the channel number+date+time and the
>>> file on disk will be re-named to that name..
>>>
>>> One problem: the script as written does not enter the file size in the
>>> mythconverg db so mythfrontend cannot see it. And it borks if there is
>>> an existing file with the exact same channel number+date+time (just add
>>> a second to the time!).
>>>
>>> The following little script (myth-filesizer) will put the correct file
>>> size in the db.
>>>
> <snipped>
>>>
>>> Geoff
>>>
>>
>> I have sometimes made a short new recording and overwritten its file
>> with the wanted one;  then mythcommflag -- rebuild will create a
>> seektable and set the file size.  Some of the metadata can be entered
>> manually.  I've also used mytharchive to transfer recordings, as
>> suggested above. It doesn't have to go through the DVD stage.  But I'll
>> look at the other suggestions too.
>>
>> Exploits like this probably won't update the 'Previously recorded' list.
>>
>> John P-
>
> It wouldn't be that hard to revise myth.rebuilddatabase.pl to *also*
> write to the 'Previously Recorded' list. but that might just be
> overkill. The script is intended to add 'extra' files into the db, so
> you can treat them as if they had been recorded. If you are pushing a
> torrented copy of a tv show which you missed recording on the first time
> round, it's a small "problem" to find that you have re-recorded it when
> it comes around on repeat....
>
> And that's my usual use case for the script.
>
> Geoff


... and I see it's been deprecated - and evaporated from the wiki, 4+ 
years ago :-).   The approved solution, of course, is to treat them as 
videos.

John