[mythtv-users] ...misuse of Mythvideo

[Robert Johnston]

On 4/16/05, Dean Vanden Heuvel <deanv at cox.net> wrote:
> I have been using Mythtv for over a year now, and I have never done much
> with Mythvideo.  In fact, I had mapped the video directory to be the
> same as that used for recordings.  When I would enter mythvideo, the
> display would show many videos, with long indecipherable names...the
> names that Myth gives to its recordings.
> 
> Today, I remapped the directory to a new dir, and dropped an "avi" file
> into it.  When I tried to enter mythvideo to see the listing, it took
> many minutes before the screen appeared...then there were no listings.
> My CPU is very busy during the wait, and using another networked
> computer, I ran "top" and learned that it is Mysql that seems to be
> thrashing for some time.
> 
> I have searched the list here for some advice, but I haven't found
> anything quite the same.  Any ideas as to what might be causing the problem?

Of course.

MythVideo is trying to find all those video files that used to be in
the directory.

Make sure you go into Settings/Utilities -> Video Manager first, which
will rescan the videos directory and make the necessary updates to the
MythVideo tables.

It might be worth doing a "Delete from videometadata" in MySQL to kill
all that old data before getting MythVideo to scan the new directory.
-- 
Robert "Anaerin" Johnston