[mythtv-users] .ts files

[Stephen Worthington]

On Sat, 15 Aug 2020 16:29:25 +1000, you wrote:

>On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 10:09:40PM +1200, Stephen Worthington wrote:
>>
>> Those are recording files.  MythTV changed some time ago to using the
>
>...snip...
>>
>> To find out what one of your .ts files is, do this:
>>
>> sudo mysql
>> use mythconverg;
>> select * from recorded where basename='<name of your .ts file>'\G
>> quit
>
>Thanks for this. I suspected as much but was surprised to find them
>in the top level rather than in the 'recordings' subdirectory.
>On my system it looks like the transition to .ts happened in mid-2016
>which is likely when I upgraded to v0.27.
>
>I checked a few of them in the 'recorded' table and they all look
>like the system knows about them, they show up in the list of
>recordings in the frontend.
>
>As to how they got there. From looking at the storagegroup table
>it seems I once had these directories set for the Default storage
>group:
>  /var/lib/mythtv
>  /data/disk1/mythv
>  /data/disk2/mythv
>
>I checked in mythtv-setup and now I have this set:
>  /var/lib/mythtv/recordings
>  /data/disk1/mythv/recordings
>  /data/disk2/mythv/recordings
>All the recent recordings are in one of those directories.
>
>I stopped the backend, moved all the stray .ts files etc into the
>recordings/ subdirs and started the backend again - all good now.
>
>Cheers
>Vince

When mythbackend is writing a new recording file, it does it in one of
the directories specified in the storage group in the recording rule.
Unless you change it, the default storage group that gets put in all
recording rules is "Default".  But when it is trying to find a
recording file, it will look in all directories in all storage groups.
So you must have /data/disk1/mythtv specified in a storage group
somewhere for it to have been finding the .ts files in their old
location.

To see all your storage directories without having to run
mythtv-setup, try this:

sudo mysql
use mythconverg;
select * from storagegroup order by groupname,dirname;
quit

BTW There is no need to shut down mythbackend when you are moving
recording files.  You do need to make sure it is not recording to or
playing back one of the recording files you are moving.