Cleaning up recordings in order of recording date

[TheRealRoland]

I tend to record a lot of stuff (TCM for the win!). Once a week or two i would go through the Program Guide, line up recordings, and then copy the existing recordings onto a networked disk. I then remove most of the previous recordings using the list of recordings on nextpvr. But not all of them. Some of them i'd like to have kept available on the pvr just for ease of viewing.

Is it possible to have the "Recordings - All recordings (list)" option list the recordings sorted by recording date? That way it's easier to see which ones to remove and keep, since my mind is working by recording date, rather than title at that moment?

Alternatively, as a lesser option - if i'm on the 'Recent Recordings' screen, and remove some but not all recordings through that screen - will the list be 'padded out' with recordings that would fall originally out of what 'recent' recordings are?

As a second alternative - if i remove a recording from the drive, will that remove the corresponding listing entry inside the PVR on recent/all recordings lists?

Thanks,

Roland

[mvallevand]

NextPVR.exe and Kodi allow sorting by date. Kodi lets you delete by folder too if you have a lot of series recordings.

Removing fiel on the disk will work too, using the default settings, as long as the root folder is there.

Martin

[TheRealRoland]

NextPVR.exe and Kodi allow sorting by date.  Kodi lets you delete by folder too if you have a lot of series recordings.

Removing fiel on the disk will work too, using the default settings, as long as the root folder is there.

Martin

OK, so as long as nextpvr knows how to deal with 'missing' recordings, i'm fine using kodi, but probably more likely just a file manager.

I know MythTV 0.27 would complain over missing recordings on the file system - you could no longer remove that entry from MythTV, other than perhaps diving into the recordings database table and tinker around there.

[Graham]

NextPVR.exe and Kodi allow sorting by date.  Kodi lets you delete by folder too if you have a lot of series recordings.

Removing fiel on the disk will work too, using the default settings, as long as the root folder is there.

Martin

OK, so as long as nextpvr knows how to deal with 'missing' recordings, i'm fine using kodi, but probably more likely just a file manager.

<AutoRemoveMissingRecordings> in config.xml will cause NextPVR to delete recording records from the database when the recording file is missing from the recording folder ... https://github.com/sub3/NextPVR/wiki/components

[TheRealRoland]

Elegant solution! Since i like what the browser UI provides with regards to program info, compared to Kodi that just has a list of videos / recordings, that perhaps may be enhanced by imdb data (or not) - i may look at recording onto a much larger usb harddisk, rather than the USB ssd i got the recordings onto. That way i get the nice picture, the description from the program guide, etc.

Kodi and the default skin is just a bit too slow when also running it next to nextpvr on the pi4.

ETA: going perhaps beyond the scope of the wishlist - the xml file that is saved in the .ts folder, that's where the recording description is saved in? I probably can figure this out myself by looking at the file ;-)
Would the web UI pick up any new folders in the recordings location, and show those in the UI? That would be really neat...

but probably moving the nextpvr UI into a kodi-like frankenstein of a system :-D

(MythTV has a separate section where you can add videos into the UI, so that you can watch both recordings and video files not recorded with mythtv, using the mythtv UI. But that may not be something in the roadmap for nextpvr, i'm sure)

[sub]

It doesn't really use the xml files. They're only there as a backup in case you need to reimport the recordings later. The main data for recordings is stored in the npvr.db3 database file.

[mvallevand]

Kodi can run just fine your pc too if you want faster ui.

Martin

[TheRealRoland]

Kodi can run just fine your pc too if you want faster ui.

Martin

Eh, then i'm back to having to connect a laptop to the TV again. So far happy having the pi4 connected directly to the TV - saves the planet (well, at least uses less power than a 10+ yr old laptop running 24/7)

[mvallevand]

Why? You can keep your setup exactly as is and on the pc where you have the browser simply install another instance of Kodi.

Martin

[BrettB]

ETA: going perhaps beyond the scope of the wishlist - the xml file that is saved in the .ts folder, that's where the recording description is saved in? I probably can figure this out myself by looking at the file ;-)
Would the web UI pick up any new folders in the recordings location, and show those in the UI? That would be really neat...

but probably moving the nextpvr UI into a kodi-like frankenstein of a system :-D

(MythTV has a separate section where you can add videos into the UI, so that you can watch both recordings and video files not recorded with mythtv, using the mythtv UI. But that may not be something in the roadmap for nextpvr, i'm sure)

NextPVR won't automatically add any new .ts files manually put in one of the recording directory trees to the "Recordings" list. If you want those added, you will need to manually import them or use a tool like Martin has put together.

The NextPVR UI (including NextPVR.exe on a PC, NLite on any remote client, knewc (in remote UI mode) running in Kodi on any remote client, etc.) includes a "Videos" option in addition to the "Recordings" option. This option will present video files found in the specified directory (in real-time) when you select it. I believe this is exactly what you're asking for.