[mythtv-users] are missing recordings automatically re-recorded when available?

[Thomas Mashos]

On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 4:29 PM, Michael T. Dean
<mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
> On 05/21/2012 07:13 PM, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
>>
>> On 12-05-21 07:06 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>>>
>>> You will need to select whether to allow re-record or not when you
>>> delete the invalid metadata.
>>
>> But I don't want to delete the invalid metadata.  Right now, the broken
>> entries in the FE episode selector instruct me that I am waiting for a
>> re-record to happen.  If I delete these broken entries I won't know that
>> there are gaps between the episodes that I do have that need to be
>> filled in before I can watch the following episodes.
>
>
> Well, current MythTV isn't designed to manage metadata in Watch Recordings
> for recordings without files.
>
> Future MythTV will support it.
>
> If you want to hack around the system and you really want to have a bunch of
> missing files slowing down Watch Recordings, you can put all of the
> recordings into a recording group ("Missing Files" or whatever), then
> "touch" the file for each one, then select that recording group in Watch
> Recordings and add the group to the playlist, then use Playlist Options to
> choose "Allow this episode to re-record", then go delete the 0-byte files.
>
>
> Mike
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Also if you are using a 0.25 and have a show that has metadata
available via the grabbers you can use a theme that shows the
season/episode of a particular show.



Thanks,

Thomas Mashos