[mythtv-users] updating the database after manual transcoding

[Michael T. Dean]

On 08/10/2009 02:12 PM, John Drescher wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Michael Spiegel wrote:
>   
>> I've been running mythtranscode manually on some of my older
>> recordings to re-encode them into smaller files.  Does the mythtv
>> database store the file formats along with the other recording
>> information? I've noticed that the file size listed in the mythtv
>> frontend does not change after I convert the files.
>>     
> Take a look my external script that cuts out commercials using projectx:
> http://github.com/drescherjm/jmdgentoooverlay/blob/ef2bfa3c129fed1bdd1639ac504b67d46f199cd9/Other/shell-scripts/mythtv/pxcut.sh
>
> In that code you will be most interested in the
>
> function update_filesize

Also, make sure you rebuild the seektable after transcoding.

Mike