[mythtv-users] Safe way to downgrade from 0.25 back to 0.24?

[Kevin Kuphal]

On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com>wrote:

> On 05/03/2012 10:40 AM, Jose Ildefonso Camargo Tolosa wrote:
>
>> On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 9:09 AM, Eric Sharkey wrote:
>>
>>  On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 9:35 AM, Jose Ildefonso Camargo Tolosa wrote:
>>>
>>>> So.... what is involved on downgrading from 0.25 to 0.24? (without
>>>> losing recent recordings, of course).
>>>>
>>> You would need to restore the backup you made before upgrading and
>>> then import any new recordings manually.
>>>
>>
> Specifically importing new recordings into the Video Library (formerly
> MythVideo).
>
>
>     That's the only supported
>>> method.
>>>
>> sigh.... time-consuming..... it is a hard decision.... eventually,
>> I'll go back to 0.25, so... invested several hours downgrading from
>> 0.24 looks like a bad idea :( , maybe I'll just live with my pvr150,
>> and wasting lots of disk space, until I get some more free time to fix
>> things on 0.25.
>>
>> On the other issue: is there anybody else having issues with
>> transcoding? (maybe I should open a new thread for that, right?).
>>
>
> FWIW, disk space is pretty cheap (even with the price increase after the
> Thai flooding).  A 1TB HDD could store a /ton/ of 2GB/hr MPEG-2 SDTV
> recordings from an ivtv device.  And, FWIW, the transcoding supported by
> mythtranscode--to MPEG-4 ASP in an NUV container, and not H.264 in any
> "useful" container--doesn't really provide useful space savings, meaning
> you're better off keeping the video in the original MPEG-2 format.  You'd
> only want to transcode your ivtv recordings if you have a constrained
> device that doesn't support MPEG-2--and even then, you'd want to use
> something other than mythtranscode since that device won't support NUV
> container.
>

Michael usually has this process down pat.  Not sure if it is reflected in
the FAQ answer

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Frequently_Asked_Questions#How_can_I_go_back_from_unstable.2Fdevelopment_code_to_release_X.3F

Kevin
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