I know that the new version of mythtv records everything with a .mpg extension now, but I am getting ALOT of .nuv files. These are just text files that say "Creating dummy file for Lost Dave" (etc). I have my live tv to only keep for 1 day. These aren't being cleaned up during the live-tv cleanup. The mpg's are being deleted. Is anyone else seeing this?

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Yeah... If there's not a bug report for this over in the MythTV Trac system there probably should be.

Please double check me on this. It's potentially destructive, so make sure you either comment out the "rm" line, or put an "echo" at the front of it, the first time you try it, and verify that it is going to do the right thing. Remember I only had one chance to test it myself.

That script worked great. Thanks. I didn't see a ticket on mythtrac so I opened a new one. I'm sure someone has reported it and probably has been fixed by now.

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Athlon 2200 processor
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MicroAtx Case
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eVGA e-GeForce mx4000 (64 Ram with Tv/Out (Svideo))
Lite-on DVD cd-rw combo
120 GB Western Digital

Thanks for filing the ticket and testing the script!

Hi,

The "Creating dummy file for L..." are probably left over from earlier days with mythlink.sh. It was great for keeping the system clean when the recordings were .nuv files. Now that the B series is rolling, that will need to be tweaked to continue helping with the sanitation of the .mpg.

Mike

I got an email back from the bug report. "Worksforme" was the response and it was closed. So it must be a knoppmyth thing or is cleaned up in the newer versions?

Copy of response from mytht bug tracker:
Changes (by danielk):

* resolution: => worksforme
* status: new => closed

Comment:

Where do these dummy files come from?
I don't see these, are you transcoding?
Are you sure these aren't LiveTV recordings (which are deleted for you
when the volume fills up or they get old) ?

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ASUS A7N266 Micro-ATX Motherboard
Athlon 2200 processor
512K Kingston PC2100 Memory
MicroAtx Case
2 PVR250's w/remote
eVGA e-GeForce mx4000 (64 Ram with Tv/Out (Svideo))
Lite-on DVD cd-rw combo
120 GB Western Digital

As mjl points out these may be an artifact of the mythlink.sh script. Remind me to go have a look at it later this week...

HI,

Here seems to be the area where when we had nuv files, it would confirm they were good and if missing, generated a dummy so one could delete them as normal.

These are my notes so far in a partial script form.
Mike

#!/bin/sh
cat /etc/K*

echo "if greater > Axx then files are stored as mpg. pretty script will need changes"
## /usr/local/bin/mythlink.sh

echo "Comment out these lines for a temp fix and until this topic is revisited"

# print "Creating missing file $mythpath/$ofn\n";
# open ($dfile,">$mythpath/$ofn") || die("Could not open txt file. $!");
# print $dfile "Creating dummy file for $title $subtitle \l";
# close ($dfile);

#ls -Li /myth/pretty/*.mpg | sort > /tmp/mpg-files
#ls -Li /myth/tv/*.nuv | sort > /tmp/nuv-files
#join -v 2 /tmp/mpg-files /tmp/nuv-files | cut -d " " -f 2 > /tmp/dead-files
#cat /tmp/dead-files | sed -e "s/^/rm -f /" > /tmp/rm-dead-files