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

[John Drescher]

On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 9:17 AM, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com>wrote:

> On 08/21/2013 09:10 AM, John Drescher wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>>
>> This would be a good approach for me. I am a programmer (actually these
>> days I program in Qt) but sql update queries will be pretty easy for me
>> provided I find the right place to update..
>>
>
> Just make sure before you start poking raw data in the database you read
> all of the MythTV source code and understand all of the data constraints
> and requirements, as they aren't expressed in the database.


I hear you. The good thing for this test is that I have daily backups of
the db and the show I was testing with it would not be the end of the world
if I deleted the whole set for that since its on 4 to 6 different channels
it would get rerecorded in month or so..

John
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