[mythtv-users] When does a Video Sync to File System

[Nick Rout]

On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 3:00 PM, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 12:50 PM, David Brodbeck <gull at gull.us> wrote:
>> One other useful item on this topic:
>>
>> If you have "video browser browses files" turned on, so you can see stuff
>> that's not in the database, it still only scans the filesystem when you
>> enter MythVideo.  So if you're already in MythVideo and you copy something
>> to the filesystem, you need to exit back out to the main MythTV menu and
>> then go back into MythVideo before you can see it.
>
>
> I used to do this until the amount of material I had on network drives
> got so large that there was a long delay when entering mythvideo.
> Particularly annoying when it is so easy to hit escape too many times
> and bounce right back out of mythvideo!

Would be great to turn browsing on on a directory by directory basis,
so when you put an external drive in it would browse but everything
else is done through video manager.