[mythtv-users] manually remove myth movie entries?

tv.mania tv.mania at gmail.com
Tue Apr 11 04:16:30 UTC 2006


Nick Rout wrote:

>On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 11:34:16 +0800
>tv.mania wrote:
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>>Nick Rout wrote:
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>>>On Mon, 10 Apr 2006 20:46:24 -0400
>>>Kurt Yoder wrote:
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>>>>On Apr 8, 2006, at 11:03 PM, Kurt Yoder wrote:
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>>>>>I added a bunch of foreign movies to my myth movies directory. They
>>>>>had accented characters in their names, so myth movie scanned them in
>>>>>using these accented characters. However, now I want to remove these
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>>>>>from the listing, but myth movie doesn't seem to do it. Where is the
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>>>>>existing catalog of scanned movies stored? Is it a mysql table?
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>>>>No response on this. Any ideas?
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>>>it is in the mythtv database (default name mythconverg) in the table
>>>videometadata
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>>>But deleting the files (or moving out of the directory) and rescanning
>>>should remove them.
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>>>And the module is mythvideo, not mythmovie :-)
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>>Only removing records from videometadata table does not seem to remove 
>>entries from MythVideo.
>>It seems to scan directory when entering MythVideo section and take some 
>>time for I have some hundreds of movies, most of which are from recordings.
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>>Andy
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>There is a setting that determines whether an automatic scan is
>undertaken. Without a mythbox in front of me I can't tell you how to get
>to the option, but it is in setup somewhere.
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>However each time you scan, either manually or automatically, every
>video file in your video directory, and all subdirectories of it, are
>going to be put in the database, and all those that have disappeared
>will be removed from the database.
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>I don't believe that the default is to have the mythvideo directory
>pointing to the same place as the recordings directory. It sounds as if
>you have done so, and therefore all of your recordings are added to your
>videos database. You therefore can presumably watch them via myth's
>"watch recorded show" menu or mythvideo's "watch video" menu.
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Try touch a dumb file in the movie directory without doing any settings. 
There will not be a record in videometadata table but you can see it in 
the "Media Library -> Watch Videos" section.

Andy


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