Convert SD to HD as new HD are available.

[joe123]

Hi All.

I recently got a HD PVR and am I now recording in HD instead of SD as with my old WinTV 150. What a difference HD makes!

I have hundreds of recordings in SD. Is there a way or a plug-in available to have my SD recordings RE-RECORDED in HD automatically when the HD equivalent of the SD recording becomes available?

Basically replacing SD recordings with HD recordings as the HD recordings become available. Replaing the bad with the good.

Some shows do not repeat for several months, so I don't want to go and delete all of my SD shows.

[Slugger]

SJQ can do this - a task was specifically created within SJQ for this exact scenario.

[joe123]

Originally Posted by Slugger

SJQ can do this - a task was specifically created within SJQ for this exact scenario.

Nice!

Thanks.

[joe123]

Slugger,

Can you point to where in the SJQ thread shows an example code for converting SD recordings to HD as HD recordings become available?

Also, can this be done only for selected Favorites? Like only convert all "Friends" recordings from SD to HD?

[Slugger]

http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/show...&postcount=700

That's in the old SJQv2 thread, I'll blindly convert the example ruleset to v3 format below, but you should read the warning I give in the post above. Use of the _RESCHED task in SJQ relies heavily on your EPG data. You almost have to have blind faith in your EPG data to use this task on a massive scale. Good luck.

Conversion of above referenced ruleset to SJQv3 format.

if [IsObjMediaFile == true && $.IsTVFile{} == true && $.IsAiringHDTV{} == false && $.GetShowExternalID{} !^ "SH"] {
  :RESCHEDOPTS "HDONLY"
  _RESCHED
}

To restrict it to certain shows only (i.e. Friends), simply add more conditions to the above rule (i.e. $.GetShowTitle{} == "Friends"). Please move any further discussion you want to have about this to the SJQv3 thread - I subscribe to that thread and will see your post; I may or may not notice further replies to this thread.

[Skirge01]

Originally Posted by Slugger

That's in the old SJQv2 thread, I'll blindly convert the example ruleset to v3 format below, but you should read the warning I give in the post above. Use of the _RESCHED task in SJQ relies heavily on your EPG data. You almost have to have blind faith in your EPG data to use this task on a massive scale. Good luck.

I think we pretty much need to have faith in the EPG data, since that's what we would go by if we were to manually go hunting for an HD version. The NODELETE option is almost a requirement, though, due to schedule changes which happen quite often.

Thanks for putting this code together. I was in the middle of researching this for my own purposes and just about figured it out when you posted. I was actually pretty darn close with what I came up with. I impressed myself!