[mythtv] How to watch old recordings after upgrading to svn?

[Graeme Hilton]

Ashley Bostock wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've upgraded from 0.18 fixes branch to svn revision 7626, programs I've 
> recorded tonight are playing fine but all old recordings are a bit 
> messed up.
> 
> Using mythfrontend no 0.18 recorded programs will play and none of them 
> show previews in the watch recordings screen, where as all the svn 
> recordings are working fine.  Using mythweb if I go to the recorded 
> programs page it takes about 5mins to show the page and when it does 
> "most" of my old recordings are listed under the date of "Thu Jan 1, 
> 1970" and with no preview image. I have only 3 out of 29 of the old 
> recordings showing under the correct date with a preview.
> 
> I know recordings for dvb are now stored with the mpg extension and in a 
> different name format, so do I need to run some form of update script to 
> fix up my 0.18 recording names and their db entries?
> 
> Thanks,
> Ash.

See the following thread:
<http://mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-dev/2005-October/040370.html>

Daniels solution worked for the files that are saved as *.nuv, but I had 
to manually enter the correct names for the *.mpg files.  Although I'm 
sure there's a simpler way.

-- 
Graeme Hilton