[mythtv-users] deleted recordings

[John Pilkington]

On 27/08/18 14:16, Stephen Worthington wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Aug 2018 19:15:33 +0800, you wrote:
> 
>> Hi All
>>
>> Today I transcoded 2 movies to mpg and deleted them.
>> Too late I realized my samsung tv, on uPnP, chokes on mpg container (and ts), but happily accepts mp4 (and does play those ‘unrecognised format’ mpg (and ts) from USB. But I digress …
>>
>> I looked at deleted which had todays news and a host of OLD recordings but not my two new deletions.
>>
>> Any body have some insight into how this all works (and I understand why, and superficially how)?
>>
>> James
> 
> If you have not changed the settings from the defaults, then anything
> you delete gets put in a queue to be actually deleted in a short time
> - I think it is about 15 minutes.  Your old recordings in the deleted
> queue are probably as a result of an old bug (long since fixed), which
> failed to actually delete things from the deleted queue.  If you
> change to viewing the deleted recordings, add all of them to the
> playlist and then delete the playlist, all those old recordings should
> be actually deleted, and no more should end up in that state if you
> are using a MythTV version after the fix was applied.  The actual
> deletion from the deleted queue can take a while, as it is not done
> all at once so as not to create too much disk activity that could
> affect any recordings that are taking place.  But you should see the
> files being removed from the deleted list over time until they are all
> gone.

I'm not clear what you want.  It sounds as if you have transcode set to 
autodelete the source file and then deleted the output too.  In that 
case all may now be lost.  But your digression suggests that you may 
still have the data and just want it in a different form.  In that case 
(myth)ffmpeg ought to be able to help; but I expect you know that :-)

John