[mythtv-users] Undelete a show marked for deletion by mistake?

[John Pilkington]

On 18/12/2022 19:40, Ken Mandelberg wrote:
> 
>> or overwrite the file of an unwanted recording and run
>>
>> mythcommflag -q --rebuild --file xxxxx_yyyymmddxxxx.ts
>>
>> and m > Recording Options > change metadata as appropriate
>>
>>
> This caught my eye not for undelete but as a way to promote a video to a 
> recording. I capture streaming videos on my firestick and would like 
> them to end up as a recording with a seektable and commercials marked. 
> I've always wondered why there wasn't an easy way to do this. I know 
> about the import recorder, but I find it too complicated. The only 
> metadata I care about is the Title.
> 
> So I tried the above and it worked fine, although I don't know how to 
> change the title.

That 'm' above is the Menu key for the 'Watch Recordings' screen. 
Change the title there.  But 'Previously recorded' will still show the 
data for the replaced recording.

I mark commercials manually.  The command above should give a seektable 
and thus enable editing.
> 
> The other disappointment is that commercial marking really need a 
> different algorithm to be effective. I'm talking about streaming video 
> with commercials. At least some of the ones I get actually have a timing 
> countdown timer icon during the commercial. mythcommflag doesn't 
> recognize them, possibly because they are on top of the screen not where 
> logos would be positioned.
> 
> 
> 
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