[mythtv-users] exporting several TV show recordings to be imported into another back-end

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Since you don’t want to transcode them, could you not set up a script to do the following

1. Scan the records in the “recordings” table on your old mythconverg database
2. Copy the file in the retrieved record from your old backend storage to your new backend storage location
3 inject the data from the old database record into the new database
4. Use mythutil to rebuild the seek table for the transferred file.
5. Possibly some other housekeeping tasks.

Caveat: I do not know if you would also need to update any other tables in the database for this to be effective maybe try it manually on a single record+recording first to see how the new backend deals with it.

Maybe one of the devs, with more knowledge of the database can give more advice on this suggestion?

Good luck,
Dave.

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> On 20 May 2026, at 15:41, James Abernathy <jfabernathy at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> The wiki has a lot of old ideas about exporting videos but not sure if they are the way to go with V36.
> 
> My desire is to move one year of episodes that are still on an old dormant v36 back-end to my new v36 back-end. The old back-end is still running but not recording anything new. I would like to hold on to the season/episode numbers and maybe the subtitle if possible. The old recordings do have a cut list/commercial flags, etc. but it's not critical to preserve them. I don't want to take the processing time to transcode these. Just keeping them in their MPEG2 .TS file format is fine.
> 
> My plan B is to use a script I use as a UserJob to cut the commercials, transcode to h264 and store is the Storage Group Videos, but that seems overkill for this effort.
> 
> Ideas??
> 
> Jim A
> 
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