[mythtv-users] Downgrading from 0.28 to 0.27

[John Pilkington]

On 22/10/14 17:38, Justin Alcorn wrote:
> I built my mythtv system on ubuntu and used the PPA to install.  Seeing
> 0.28, I of course chose the latest version  - not realizing I was using
> a pre-release version.  It's worked well, but I'm running into problems
> with mythcommflag and the H.264 files I need. Also, I later on decided
> to create a dedicated front end in my exercise room - only to discover
> that I couldn't use Mythbuntu.

AFAIK there are h264 seektable regeneration problems in both 0.27 and 
master.  The patches in #12010 work for me for recordings from DVB-T2 in 
the UK but I don't think they are in the distributed versions.

If you can work around your frontend difficulty I would stay with master.

>
> So I'm considering downgrading to 0.27.  I know there were significant
> schema changes and that there's no supported downgrade path.  I actually
> use PLEX for media that I want to keep long term, so just moving all the
> recordings I want to keep and starting from scratch is an option.  But
> It would be nice to have the recordings available for the frontend machine.
>
> So, options, in order of want:
>
> 1) Find a miracle, and fInd out that someone has written a script to
> change the schema and allow me to install 0.27 and get up and running
> with all my data  (YAY).  If that's happened, let me know.
>
> 2) Find the instructions on how to pull all the video recordings out,
> rebuild on 0.27, and then import them all back in and have them show up
> as if I had recorded them.
>
> 3) Discover the documentation on the database changes and write my own
> script that would take a mysqldump and convert it for later restoration
> into a 0.27 empty database. (I'm capable of both the technical and
> hours-of-labor/ADD/obsessive-compulsive sides of this, but probably not)
>
> 4) Just accept that the old recordings will not show up in Myth and
> rebuild from scratch.
>
> There's also the "Hey, 0.28 is working (mostly), so just leave well
> enough alone.
>
> Advice?  Ideas?
>
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> Justin B. Alcorn
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