Restore Recordings

A Ba

Hi all,

can someone please guide me on how to restore Recordings to TVH. Unfortunatelly I did not see that the DVR Retention time was set only to 31 days (Maybe make sense to set that to a higher value per default) and now I want to restore the recordings to see them in the Database again. Any chance to do that?

Thanks

Alex

A Ba

Hi,

sorry to push that again but I am wondering if I am the only one who ever wanted to restore an existing recording to the Database.

As I have one day free today maybe someone could help to fix that.

Thanks in advance

Robert Cameron

I have a similar question.

Due to tweaking how my storage folder was mounted (CIFS/SMB vs. NFS) and user/group mappings, there were several recordings that failed to record this past weekend because Tvheadend reported that it could not create the file. Ultimately, I will probably download these files and add them to my Kodi library. However, I would like to add them to Tvheadend.

Is it possible if I were to transcode the files into MPEG-TS containers and name them the same as Tvheadend would have, and then restart Tvheadend, would Tvheadend find the new files move the recordings from "Failed Recordings" into "Completed Recordings"?

I know that Tvheadend has problems adding extra files to the DVR database or otherwise modifying the DVR recordings, but I'm thinking this might be possible. (I was able to do this same process to replace a corrupted/interrupted recording with a downloaded file that was transcoded into MPEG-TS and renamed the same as Tvheadend expected, and it was picked up by TVH on its next restart, so perhaps this isn't so crazy ...)

EDIT/UPDATE:
I was able to remux H.264/AAC MKV files into MPEG-TS containers, rename them appropriately and place them where Tvheadend would expect them. Then, I told those failed recordings to be moved to finished; at first Tvheadend complained saying the file was missing, but after restarting Tvheadend, it rescanned the folders, found the new file and now the previously 'failed' recording is now showing up in Tvheadend as if it had recorded them itself.

A Ba

Hi,

ok and how do you bring existig files into the database?

Thanks

Alex

Robert Cameron

I already posted how I did so: remuxed the files into MPEG-TS containers, named them as TVH expected, told TVH to move the failed recordings to finished, then restarted TVH.

Remember though, I stated this was for failed recordings that TVH had already placed in its DVR database, not new/random recordings that TVH knew nothing about.

Dimitar Maznekov

Robert Cameron wrote:
> I already posted how I did so: remuxed the files into MPEG-TS containers, named them as TVH expected, told TVH to move the failed recordings to finished, then restarted TVH.
>

> Remember though, I stated this was for failed recordings that TVH had already placed in its DVR database, not new/random recordings that TVH knew nothing about.

told TVH to move the failed recordings to finished - how to be done that ???

Robert Cameron

Dimitar Maznekov wrote:
> Robert Cameron wrote:
> > I already posted how I did so: remuxed the files into MPEG-TS containers, named them as TVH expected, told TVH to move the failed recordings to finished, then restarted TVH.
> >
> > Remember though, I stated this was for failed recordings that TVH had already placed in its DVR database, not new/random recordings that TVH knew nothing about.
>

> told TVH to move the failed recordings to finished - how to be done that ???

In the tab that lists Failed Recordings in the DVR tab, it lists all kinds of failed recordings (time missed, too many errors, &c.). At the top is a button to move selected items back to Finished Recordings.

Dimitar Maznekov

I resolve the problem with Missing records after upgrade to latest unstable 4.1
There is already such button Move to finished. BUT in 4.0.9 Stable, there isn't such button.