[mythtv-users] Best way to copy to windows and delete after recording?

[Jason Bilbrey]

I've found that running the following SQL command:

Update recorded set watched=1 where watched=0

Updates all the currently recorded shows and marks them as watched.  Now
when auto-expire happens due to disk space, it marks the show as a
duplicate and never tries to record it again.

This approach was much simpler than trying to purge the files, etc and has
been working great for me since I already had automated processes in place
to rename the files using MythLink.pl (user job) and then to copy off the
friendly video file names (using a scheduled task on a Windows box) and do
all the processing and archiving.  :-)

Hopefully this final recap helps others with the same need in the future.

Jason


On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 6:17 PM, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com>wrote:

> On 03/17/2013 07:15 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>
>> Exactly.  This would be the best approach.  Note, also, that you don't
>> even need the script to rename the videos--just copy the symlink created by
>> MythTV while dereferencing and you'll create a file on the new system with
>> the same name as the link, but the content of the file.
>>
>
> er, "copy the symlink created by mythlink.pl"
>
>
> Mike
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