<html class="apple-mail-supports-explicit-dark-mode"><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Since you don’t want to transcode them, could you not set up a script to do the following<div><br></div><div>1. Scan the records in the “recordings” table on your old mythconverg database</div><div>2. Copy the file in the retrieved record from your old backend storage to your new backend storage location</div><div>3 inject the data from the old database record into the new database</div><div>4. Use mythutil to rebuild the seek table for the transferred file.</div><div>5. Possibly some other housekeeping tasks.</div><div><br></div><div>Caveat: I do not know if you would also need to update any other tables in the database for this to be effective maybe try it manually on a single record+recording first to see how the new backend deals with it.</div><div><br></div><div>Maybe one of the devs, with more knowledge of the database can give more advice on this suggestion?</div><div><br></div><div>Good luck,</div><div>Dave.</div><div><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfSignature"><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPad</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On 20 May 2026, at 15:41, James Abernathy <jfabernathy@gmail.com> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#444444">The wiki has a lot of old ideas about exporting videos but not sure if they are the way to go with V36.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#444444"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#444444">My desire is to move one year of episodes that are still on an old dormant v36 back-end to my new v36 back-end. The old back-end is still running but not recording anything new. I would like to hold on to the season/episode numbers and maybe the subtitle if possible. The old recordings do have a cut list/commercial flags, etc. but it's not critical to preserve them. I don't want to take the processing time to transcode these. Just keeping them in their MPEG2 .TS file format is fine.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#444444"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#444444">My plan B is to use a script I use as a UserJob to cut the commercials, transcode to h264 and store is the Storage Group Videos, but that seems overkill for this effort.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#444444"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#444444">Ideas??</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#444444"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#444444">Jim A<br><br></div></div>
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