[mythtv-users] Slim down weight from .old transcodes the MythTV way

[Yeechang Lee]

Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> says:
> ***Warning:  /Do not/ enable this setting unless you're running MythTV 
> 0.20-fixes r11313 or above (basically, code from on or after Sep 28) or 
> SVN trunk r11312.

Was this an issue that the bugfix you helped me with regarding this
code took care of? Or was there another, more dire, issue with it?

> Note, though, that even with this enabled, you can be affected by
> slow deletes when the transcoder finishes if you don't enable the
> mythtv-setup setting:
> 
> Save original files after transcoding (globally) When set and the
> transcoder is active, the original files will be renamed to .old
> once the transcoding is complete.
> 
> So, just enable that setting (which is actually a good thing since
> you can verify your transcode worked before you lose the original)
> and delete the .old files when Myth isn't recording.

Anyone feel like writing a shell script, callable through cron, that
will a) take all .old files and b) truncate and delete each one down
in a way similar to the method now incorporated into mythbackend?
Volunteers wanted!

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