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<body>On Sun, 17 Mar 2013 19:52:02 -0000, Jason Bilbrey <jason@bilbrey.me> wrote:<br><br><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0.80ex; border-left: #0000FF 2px solid; padding-left: 1ex">On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 2:03 AM, Stephen Worthington <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stephen_agent@jsw.gen.nz" target="_blank">stephen_agent@jsw.gen.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On Fri, 15 Mar 2013 21:23:01 -0500, you wrote:<br>
<br>
>Yeah, I need to copy it off. I have my 3 tuners recording 24x7 and I'm<br>
>archiving shows. Copying the shows off I can do automated (and am from the<br>
>windows side) but I have to go through MythWeb and delete the shows after<br>
>that. If I forget to delete them daily then MythTV starts flagging them as<br>
>not watched when it autopurges and then starts recording duplicates which I<br>
>don't want.<br>
><br>
>So I either need to change the default behavior of MythTV so that when it<br>
>autopurges it marks the show as never record again, or I need to figure out<br>
>a way to automatically delete shows off the MythTV with a script every 24<br>
>hours or so...<br>
><br>
>Jason<br>
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</div>One option you may not have considered is that the MythTV box is<br>
capable of recording to network locations. You can make a new storage<br>
group with a network mounted location in it, and then you can<br>
designate the programs you want to record there instead of in the<br>
"Default" storage group. You would have to be careful not to overload<br>
the network connection - Gigabit ethernet is recommended and I would<br>
think you would not want to record two programs at once to network<br>
storage without testing carefully first.<br>
<br>
And adding more hard drives to the MythTV box (if it is not maxed out<br>
already) is another option. You can also add a USB 3.0 or eSATA PCIe<br>
card and add external drives. I have two in a dual external USB 3.0<br>
swap mount on my laptop and that works fine for recording, and I have<br>
an eSATA drive on my main MythTV box as it has run out of internal<br>
drive slots. I have also pulled power and SATA cables out of the back<br>
of the box to run two SATA drives externally, but on internal power.<br>
So the box now has 3 internal and 2 external recording drives on it,<br>
plus the video storage drives.<br>
<br>
With an external drive mount, you can swap hard drives, move files<br>
onto them (at full hard disk speed), then move the drive (or the drive<br>
and mount) to another PC for playback. Or just put the drives on the<br>
shelf for archive storage.<br>
<br>
The WD30EZRX 3 Tbyte green drives are pretty cheap, but entirely fast<br>
enough for recording to.<br>
<br>
Another useful trick is the find orphans script:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Find_orphans.py" target="_blank">http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Find_orphans.py</a><br>
<br>
That allows you to just move files off the MythTV box and then run the<br>
script to fix up the database by deleting the entries for the missing<br>
file. But I do not know if that would then allow the programs to<br>
re-record or not.<br>
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br><br>
</div></div></blockquote><div>Alas, I am converting the videos and the MythTV box I'm on doesn't have the processing power, nor do I want to watch the videos using the MythTV front-end. Although I appreciate the suggestion to just add more disk space. :-)<div>
<br></div><div>I was thinking about a new idea, what if I just flagged all the recordings as watched in the database and then when the auto-expire kicked in it would automatically clean up the files and mark them to not record again.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I watched a video and was expecting the "watched" field in the "recorded" table to go from 0 to 1 for the video but it didn't change at all. Am I looking at the wrong table to see if Myth is marking a video to be watched?</div>
<div><br></div><div><div><div>Jason</div></div>
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</blockquote><br><div>Couldn't you use <a href="http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Delete_recordings.py">http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Delete_recordings.py</a> as a basis for your script ? You could even modify it to mark the recordings as watched rather than delete them, for safety.<br></div><div><br></div><div>By default the 'Watched' flag must be set manually. There is an option in Frontend/Setup/TV settings/Playback/page 1 to "Automatically mark watched" but that's only applicable if you actually watch all the programmes on the Frontend, which I don't believe you are. </div><br></body></html>