[mythtv-users] Rerecord large groups of recordings in digital

John Drescher drescherjm at gmail.com
Tue Aug 20 02:40:20 UTC 2013


> I did something like this for a friend who wanted to upgrade her
> collection of favourite House episodes from analog cable to digital OTA. On
> the digital channel we did a record all this channel and for duplicate
> matching we said only in current recordings & gradually her faves are being
> upgraded.


I did not know there were different options in duplicate checking. I will
have to look into that.


> I also did a SQL report to mail her a list of duplicates every week and
> she manually reviews and deletes. The key here is the digital channel is
> different from the analog one.
>

I was thinking of something like this.

>
> I imagine this could be made generic with a custom query that selects your
> desired titles when they appear in the new source and a row exists with the
> same programid and the old source. That involves a lot of hunting so I
> doubt this would perform very well.
>
> Since the list of shows to rerecord is static(ish) you might instead get
> their programids and do a custom query matching on the new source and
> programid in the giant list of IDs. I assume programid is indexed so this
> would run efficiently.
>

Thanks.

John
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