[mythtv] Way of calling FORCE_DELETE_RECORDING

[Michael T. Dean]

On 08/08/2006 01:16 PM, John Johnson wrote:

>Jochen Kühner wrote:
>  
>
>>when i was walking through the source, i think that this command expires 
>>recordings from my list even when the file is not there any more.
>>(because i had a harddrive crash and i have many recordings in my db 
>>which are not there any more, but the auto expire doesn't delete them)
>>
>>but i don't know how to run this command??? is there a menuitem for it 
>>in the frontend??? can i do it like mythbackend --forcedelete or is it 
>>there and not used (so that i have to write my own program!)
>>    
>>
>
>This program cleans up the recordings directory, database, etc. and 
>works for me:
>
>http://tinyurl.com/qv7vu
>

Why use a default thumbnail?  Thumbnails will be generated on demand 
(i.e. when you scroll over a program in the Watch Recordings screen when 
you've enabled display of thumbnail previews or when you go to the 
Recorded Programs page in MythWeb).

If Myth can't create a thumbnail, there's a configuration problem that 
should be fixed (i.e. permissions issue on the directory or ...).

Also, I wasn't sure what the "same basename, but more than one 
extension" stuff was for.  That shouldn't generally happen.  (And, 
anyway, the basename field in the database stores the filename 
/including/ extension, so it shouldn't hurt anything.)

Mike