[mythtv-users] adding recordings to the database?

[Stephen Worthington]

On Sun, 28 Jan 2018 18:42:36 -0500, you wrote:

>I don’t have this problem, but I’m thinking ahead.  Suppose you have a bunch of TV recordings but you’ve lost the database and your backup.  Is there a way to add the recordings to a new database and fresh install?

No.  It would be possible to write a script to do it, but it would be
a fair bit of work and is not necessary.  Just put the recordings in a
videos directory and change the names on the files to represent what
they are.  If you use a name format that the metadata download
understands, then you can normally get the same sort of information
you would have had in the EPG data.

>Second situation.  You have a lot of recordings, but your database backup is a few years old and missing a few of the recordings.  Is there a way to run a script to find recordings that are present but not in the database and then add them back in?

The find_orphans.py script does this, or at least it will tell you
about recordings that have database and no recording file and vice
versus.  But it will not be able to recover database entries for
recordings missing that data - again, just move the files to videos
and rename them.

>Jim Abernathy
>jfabernathy at gmail.com