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

[Michael T. Dean]

On 05/21/2012 08:21 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 05/21/2012 08:05 PM, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
>> On 12-05-21 07:29 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>>> Well, current MythTV isn't designed to manage metadata in Watch
>>> Recordings for recordings without files.
>> And that's fair enough.  Certainly what I want to do is outside the
>> realm of a typical/normal workflow I'd think.
>>
>>> 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.
>> Ahhh.  Nice solution.  Except that I don't seem to have a menu option on
>> these broken recordings to even change their recording group.  The only
>> options are "Show Recording Details", "Delete", and "Add to Playlist".
>> I might be able to use the playlist to change the recording group,
>> however...
>
> With add to playlist available, you might be able to access both the 
> "Allow this episode to re-record" and "Change recording group" 
> playlist options directly, and not even need to touch files.
>
>> I can cobble up some shell-script to give me a list of recordings that
>> have a missing file and create 0-byte files from that list so this first
>> problem is not really a huge problem.  However, even with recordings
>> tagged (and of course untagged as described previously), there isn't a
>> playlist option to "Allow ... re-record"
>
> Yes, because we didn't design Watch Recordings to allow you to keep 
> metadata for non-existent recordings.  It's supposed to manage 
> recordings--complete with metadata /and/ files.  :)

Ah, wait, you're saying there's no "Allow this episode to re-record" 
option in the Playlist Options menu.  Guess we don't have a way of 
allowing it for a group at once--meaning it would be one-by one using 
Schedule Options menu after touching the files.

Mike