[mythtv-users] Rerecord large groups of recordings in digital

[Joseph Fry]

>> I am pretty sure that if the recording is marked as bad, Myth will re-record the program next time it appears.  Not sure if it then deletes the original, or even how to manually mark a recording as bad, maybe one of the dev's can advise a way to do this.
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> The recorded list pop up menu has an "allow this episode to rerecord" item which will accomplish what John wants. Unfortunately it's per-show only, meaning you can't use it with playlists, so it gets tedious issuing it for several dozen recordings. If one could whip up a keyboard macro then it might also be a good approach.

The beauty is, that everything you do in the menu can be accomplished
by editing the database.  I don't know what exactly "allow this
episode to rerecord" does... but there is no doubt in my mind that you
could reproduce this in scale with a few lines of SQL.