[mythtv-users] mythtranscode just deleted my file

George Bingham georgeb1962 at gmail.com
Sun Nov 20 20:31:42 UTC 2016


On Sun, Nov 20, 2016 at 8:38 AM, Stuart Auchterlonie <
stuarta at squashedfrog.net> wrote:

> On 20/11/16 14:35, Paul Gardiner wrote:
>
>> For some years now, I've been using mythtranscode in --fifodir mode,
>> often running it several times on the same recording to transcode
>> different parts. All has worked well, until I updated to v 0.28:
>> now it seems mythtranscode deletes the original file even in --fifodir
>> mode. Madness! Any way I can stop it doing that?
>>
>>
> Known issue, a patch is being worked on.
>
>
> Regards
> Stuart
>
>
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If you manually link the original recording and give the link a ".tmp"
extension, then the mythtranscode command will not delete the original
recording and restore it from the .tmp link - provided that you have it set
in the mythbackend settings to preserve the original recording.

HTH,

George
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