[mythtv-users] Record only HD or prefer HD over SD

[Johnny Walker]

On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 6:13 PM, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
> On 02/03/2010 06:06 PM, Jim Stichnoth wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 2:30 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>>
>>> Regardless, I give up.  Read the HOWTO (
>>> http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-12.html ) or don't, whatever you
>>> want.  Either way, live with the results, and please don't complain when
>>> MythTV does exactly what you told it to do.
>>>
>> I've seen you give this advice countless times (and thanks for your
>> patience!).  Not that I'm offering to write a patch, but has anyone
>> ever considered an option where both versions of the program get
>> recorded, and the less desirable version is subsequently deleted?
>>
>
> Actually, yes.  David Shay was (or, more precisely, a patch to allow
> re-recording a show if the already-recorded version was standard
> definition and the new showing was high definition).  Thread at
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/281219#281219 .
>
> In the end, though, it turned out to be mostly unnecessary thanks to
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/312900#312900 (plus
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/313077#313077 ).  If
> you wanted to wrap that up into an example clause in
> programs/mythfrontend/customedit.cpp , I'm sure a lot of people would
> love it.  (If you don't, I may get around to it one of these days. :)

I've got tomorrow off and I'm already looking into it.

-JJ

>
> The only thing left is something to go back through and delete the SDTV
> versions (though it could be accomplished with a user job that runs
> after the HDTV re-record rule, invoking a Python-bindings-using script
> that either sends a command to the backend to delete the SDTV version or
> changes its recording group to LiveTV or, for those using the "Auto
> Expire Instead of Delete Recording" option, Deleted).
>
> Mike
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