[mythtv-users] mythtranscode just deleted my file

[Paul Gardiner]

On 20/11/2016 20:31, George Bingham wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 20, 2016 at 8:38 AM, Stuart Auchterlonie
> <stuarta at squashedfrog.net <mailto:stuarta at squashedfrog.net>> wrote:
>
>     On 20/11/16 14:35, Paul Gardiner wrote:
>
>         For some years now, I've been using mythtranscode in --fifodir mode,
>         often running it several times on the same recording to transcode
>         different parts. All has worked well, until I updated to v 0.28:
>         now it seems mythtranscode deletes the original file even in
>         --fifodir
>         mode. Madness! Any way I can stop it doing that?
>
>
>     Known issue, a patch is being worked on.
>
> If you manually link the original recording and give the link a ".tmp"
> extension, then the mythtranscode command will not delete the original
> recording and restore it from the .tmp link - provided that you have it
> set in the mythbackend settings to preserve the original recording.

Is that a link in the linux sense? Does it matter soft or hard? I
might add that to my script as a work around for now. Do you know
what the logic is behind that behaviour - why it needs both the
.tmp file and the setting?

Cheers,
	Paul.