[mythtv-users] Older recordings not visible in mythfrontend

[Mark Perkins]

On 6 February 2017 4:31:02 PM Stephen Worthington 
<stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:

> In mythfrontend, I can currently see 18985 recordings listed.

Where did you get this number from in mythfrontend? If the "All Programs" 
screen it may exclude programs in the LiveTV recgroup and the Deleted recgroup.

> But querying the database give this:
>
> MariaDB [mythconverg]> select count(*) from recorded;
> +----------+
> | count(*) |
> +----------+
> |    19876 |
> +----------+
> 1 row in set (0.00 sec)
>
> and on checking some of the oldest recordings in the database, they
> are there and can be played using mythavtest on the recording file,
> but they do not show up in mythfrontend's recordings screen.  These
> older recordings do show up in mythexport's On-The-Go export web page,
> and I can export them to another MythTV system, such as my laptop.  As
> an example, I have 16 recordings of the series "Cold Case", recorded
> in 2010, and have exported four of them to my laptop successfully.
> Having watched two of them on my laptop while on holiday, I now need
> to delete them from my main MythTV box, but since they are not
> displayed in mythfrontend, I can not do that.
>

Given you have a couple of known examples to work with check the value of 
recgroup and deletepending from the recorded table.

With deletepending I had some recordings get stuck in limbo that didn't 
show anywhere but I found still in the database literally a year later. 
IIRC I had to manually toggle the value back to zero in mysql which then 
allowed them to be deleted in mythfrontend again and they did delete second 
time around. I think there was a similar thread from someone else recently 
with the same experience.

> So I am wondering if mythfrontend has a hard coded limit somewhere, or
> maybe a setting, that sets a maximum number of recordings that it can
> display, and if there are more than that number, it only displays the
> latest ones.  If so, where can I find it so I can increase it?
>

I don't recall ever seeing such a setting although that doesn't count for much.
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