<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/25/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Michael T. Dean</b> <<a href="mailto:mtdean@thirdcontact.com">mtdean@thirdcontact.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>> So far, however, my experiment has resulted in an entry in "Watch<br>> Recordings" for which Myth claims there is no file, and a corrupted<br>> database that is causing daily backend crashes.<br><br>
Corrupted DB or corrupted data? Corrupted DB should be fixed with<br>optimize_mythdb.pl. Fixing corrupted data (which can occur while a DB<br>is corrupted) is not automatic.</blockquote><div><br>Good question. I have a cron job to run opitimize_mythdb.pl which finally got a chance to run last night, so we'll see.
<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">> Before I troubleshoot this method further, I just wanted to ask if I<br>> am pursing the correct/best method to do what I want, or is there
<br>> something much simpler/easier/less disruptive that I should be trying?<br><br>That's the "appropriate" solution for getting metadata into the DB as if<br>the file were originally recorded by the Myth box. Chances are you used
<br>a version of <a href="http://myth.rebuilddatabase.pl">myth.rebuilddatabase.pl</a> that didn't come with your version<br>of mythtv, so it corrupted the data in your DB.</blockquote><div><br>I used the very script that came in the contrib directory of my myth install. But the script asks a _lot_ of questions along the way, so chances are there was operator error involved...
<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">IMHO, the best solution for your particular case is probably to just use<br>avidemux2 or something to remove the commercials and leave the
<br>recordings in MythVideo.</blockquote><div><br>Thanks for the tip. I'll try avidemux2 out tonight-<br></div><br>-Steve<br></div><br>-- <br>________________________<br>"It's easy enough to name those who would piss themselves with joy over the prospect of a One World corporate state, with billions of people begging to work for their 1,500 calories a day and an xBox chip in their necks."