[mythtv-users] Rerecord large groups of recordings in digital
John Drescher
drescherjm at gmail.com
Tue Aug 20 01:05:38 UTC 2013
You could delete them and allow re-record.... of course that would
> delete them unless you exported them to videos first.
>
I have a second copy however I would prefer to not go that route.
>
> You could, fairly easily, delete the entries from your "oldrecorded"
> table for those shows you want to re-record. I am pretty sure this
> won't disrupt the current recordings on the disk. Of course, then you
> will have duplicates when the show re-records.
>
> You could probably write a script to loop through every file in your
> recordings, deleting the related entry in the "oldrecorded" table.
>
> You might also be able to create another script that would run user
> job after recording is complete that would search for the new
> recording's programid (and/or subtitle and description) in the
> "recorded" table, and if it finds two of the same, it deletes the old
> one; so then you would only have a single copy of the recording.
This seems like the type of solution I was looking for. Thanks
John
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