[mythtv-users] deleted recordings

[James Linder]

> On 28 Aug 2018, at 8:35 am, mythtv-users-request at mythtv.org wrote:
> 
>>> Today I transcoded 2 movies to mpg and deleted them.
>>> Too late I realized my samsung tv, on uPnP, chokes on mpg container (and ts), but happily accepts mp4 (and does play those ?unrecognised format? mpg (and ts) from USB. But I digress ?
>>> 
>>> I looked at deleted which had todays news and a host of OLD recordings but not my two new deletions.
>>> 
>>> Any body have some insight into how this all works (and I understand why, and superficially how)?
>>> 
>>> James
>> 
>> If you have not changed the settings from the defaults, then anything
>> you delete gets put in a queue to be actually deleted in a short time
>> - I think it is about 15 minutes.  Your old recordings in the deleted
>> queue are probably as a result of an old bug (long since fixed), which
>> failed to actually delete things from the deleted queue.  If you
>> change to viewing the deleted recordings, add all of them to the
>> playlist and then delete the playlist, all those old recordings should
>> be actually deleted, and no more should end up in that state if you
>> are using a MythTV version after the fix was applied.  The actual
>> deletion from the deleted queue can take a while, as it is not done
>> all at once so as not to create too much disk activity that could
>> affect any recordings that are taking place.  But you should see the
>> files being removed from the deleted list over time until they are all
>> gone.
> 
> I'm not clear what you want.  It sounds as if you have transcode set to 
> autodelete the source file and then deleted the output too.  In that 
> case all may now be lost.  But your digression suggests that you may 
> still have the data and just want it in a different form.  In that case 
> (myth)ffmpeg ought to be able to help; but I expect you know that :-)

Thanks John, actually Stephen's explanation perfectly exlains what I am seeing, so instead of Black Box magic it lets me understand.
I do not have transcode set to delete, I did that by hand !!!

James