I have used mythlink as a cronjob and like you ran it once a night. I started adding it to the tail end of my job when I started plugging my converted recordings back into the database. It seemed like the thing to do ;) Since I play the recordings from the link name I was concerned that it might case playback issues if a generic mythlink run happened during playback. My conversion from mpeg2 to mp4 only takes 5 or 6 minutes for a half hour program so a recording is ready very quickly and we often want to watch them. Turns out a mythlink run doesn't have any effect at least so far and I just created a cronjob to run every 10 minutes.<div>
<br></div><div>It doesn't seem to have any effect. <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 12:05 PM, Michael T. Dean <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mtdean@thirdcontact.com">mtdean@thirdcontact.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 02/07/2012 12:41 PM, Jeremy Jones wrote:<br>
<div class="im">> On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 10:18 AM, Zarthan South wrote:<br>
>> Thanks<br>
>> The only reason I had for wanting to delete the individual links was<br>
>> thinking that recreating the links might disturb an in progress video<br>
>> playing. I will add mythlink to a system event and see what happens.<br>
> FWIW, I am (and some others here as well) running mythlink as a cron job<br>
> instead of a system event. Mine is set to run nightly, and I've never<br>
> noticed a link that didn't work, but it is possible I guess.<br>
><br>
> Still, I am not sure if the deletion of a symlink would affect in progress<br>
> video playback. Would you mind posting back after you have tried it? Or if<br>
> anyone else already knows? Or is it different depending on the player<br>
> reading the file?<br>
<br>
</div>I think he's concerned about overloading the backend--either I/O wait<br>
due to database access or filesystem access caused by deleting all the<br>
links, then re-creating them--causing problems with the backend's<br>
ability to write the recording and/or seek table and/or stream the<br>
recording to a frontend...<br>
<br>
I think <a href="http://mythlink.pl" target="_blank">mythlink.pl</a> is still low-resource enough that it shouldn't be an<br>
issue, though. (It seemed to be even on my old Athlon XP 1700+<br>
backend. I haven't had a problem since we removed the code from the<br>
bindings that "played" every recording with mplayer to get video<br>
information.) Please let us know if that's not the case on your system.<br>
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
Mike<br>
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