Hi,
I have about 5 orphan recordings in my tv folder(where mythtv puts all TV recordings) but I do not see any corresponding info in database. Can somebody suggest how to recover these files so that I may edit them and encode them?

Thanks in advance.
PK

do you have a backup of the database that had db records that corespond to the nuv files? One easy thing to do is just record 5 crappy shows, delete the nuv files and rename the current orphan files to the deleted file names and then use nuvexport to encode them in to something else.

or if they were recorded with a pvr hardware card then just rename them to blah.mpg and it will work just fine.

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Xsecrets

Do you mean you don't see your recordings in the mysql database (mythconverg) or are the recordings just not listed (visible) within mythtv -> tv -> watch recording sreen? If the latter, try to hit 'M' and change the group to 'all shows'.

mcdrama : Thanks for your idea. I also was thinking the same(recording some crap and then replacing the crap files with the ones I have) but I wanted to write a script to recover such files which would save me from future problems.

Xsecrets : I can play those file, no problem, I just wanted to be able to edit them to remove commercials and encode them using ffmpeg.

beamleand : I do not see the data in mysql database itself at all.

Actually I caused this problem myself. I had a backup of mysql database at time T1. Then I recorded a few programs(the ones that are orphan now). And then during some testing I restored the old database of time T1, thus losing the information about the new recordings.

I know there may not be many idiots like me, but I would like to write small script to recover such files to save the few of us from this problem again

this would be a very simple script to write, once I get to work, I will take a stab at it. The problem is that you need show names, times, and other misc info.
I will post later on with a script.

ttfn!

--Matt

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