[mythtv-users] How to manually run "Update Video Database"?

[jedi]

On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 12:24:15PM +1300, Nick Rout wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 8:36 AM, Matt Nelson <matt at frozenatom.com> wrote:
> > When you go into the "Video Manager" in mythtv, it will update your database
> > with any files that you have added in the mythvideo path.  Is there anyway
> > to run this manually?  I would like to add this into a cron...
> 
> I think the short answer is no, the longer answer may lie in 0.22, but

...unless you are comfortable writing data to the relevant tables yourself,
then the answer is no. It would be really handy if it were otherwise though.
OTOH, a homemade automated solution is not too difficult. 

(ducks)

> I'm not too sure..
> One reason is that it is often interactive, with messages like "file
> /mythvideo/startrek/season1/s1e01.avi is missing, delete from
> database?" coming up and requiring an answer.