[mythtv-users] update recordings database?

[Michael T. Dean]

On 04/29/2013 09:40 PM, Nick Rout wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 1:32 PM, wrote:
>
>> Hi, I was experimenting recently and in the process of rolling-back
>> some changes, I overwrote my myth recordings database. The result is
>> that I have 10 days of recordings on the hdd that the backend has no
>> information on.
>>
>> Question: how can I add the information on these recordings back to
>> the database?
>>
>
> Go to one of the backups made druing the 10 day period?
>
>

And if you didn't do any backups during those 10 days, the only 
supported solution is to put those recordings into the Video Library.  
Video Library is the location for user-managed video (i.e. video where 
the user provides file name, directory/storage organization) as well as 
user-provided video (i.e. not-recorded by "this" MythTV 
instance--meaning not already in the Watch Recordings section).

If you don't like the idea of some parts of the series being in Watch 
Recordings and some parts in Video Library, you have 2 options:  1) let 
MythTV re-record the episodes when/if they re-air or 2) move all the 
rest of the episodes of that series to Video Library.  Note that moving 
recordings to Video Library has huge benefits, including better support 
for large collections of video (Watch Recordings become very cumbersome 
when you have a lot of recordings), better 
navigability/sorting/filtering (without having to go back and forth 
between Watch Recordings and frontend settings to change it), the 
ability to use meaningful file names (that allow you to identify the 
content even if you lose the MythTV database), ability to organize the 
videos how you like (using directories to provide hierarchical 
organization), excellent metadata support, and more.  IMHO, anyone who 
keeps recordings--rather than watching and immediately deleting the 
recording--should seriously consider moving those recordings to Video 
Library.

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/519758#519758

Note that you can use mythvidexport.py to help you move the recordings.

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Mythvidexport.py

There are a couple of versions that have some updates for 0.26 out 
there, and I expect the wiki version will get an update before long (now 
that mythtranscode's lossless cutting is working, again, the author has 
started using mythvidexport.py, again, to archive some shows).

Mike