[mythtv-users] More Questions about JAMU
Nasa
nasa01 at comcast.net
Thu Oct 29 10:30:38 UTC 2009
----- "Doug Vaughan" <r.d.vaughan at rogers.com> wrote:
> Nasa,
>
> 1. When you run jamu in maintenance mode does it update the genre on
> the
> different video files? If I read the wiki right, it should...
> However,
> Answer: When a video needs to add a genre the genre is added to the
> global genre pool, at the time of the new genre addition ONLY that
> specific video gets associated with the new genre.
>
> 1a. Given jamu does this for vidoes that don't have any genre list,
> how
> does it handle videos that have an incomplete list of genre?
> Answer: If a video already has at least one associated genre no
> maintenance update is triggered even if there are some new data at
> TMDB
> or TVDB. If some other meta data field(s) are missing an update is
> triggered and all missing data or changed data that is newly available
>
> gets updated including genres. Again this will only happen when some
> data is missing.
>
> If for some reason you feel that a video has incomplete or out of date
>
> information then update the video using MythVideos "w" key. That will
>
> refresh the meta data. The alternative of checking on each video on
> every maintenance run could impact you personal bandwidth usage and
> adversely impact the two free resources we are so dependant on.
>
> 2. The wiki says to run the mass update without editing the genre list
>
> from themoviedb -- if that includes genre like "indie" which you don't
>
> want, should jamu remove it from films that have it listed as such?
> Answer: Jamu does not have that feature. The comment on the wiki was
> to
> protect a user from eliminating meta data until they actually saw how
> it
> was used in the "new" MythUI.
>
> 3. I have a whole bunch of cartoons... Some are correctly ID'd as
> animations, while some (in the same series) are not. How do I fix
> this?
> (Same type of question for BSG -- none of them are listed as Sci-fi)
> Answer: Jamu is at the mercy of the source of the meta data (tvdb and
>
> tmdb). You have two choices get an edit account on both TVDB and TMDB
>
> and add missing data or edit the meta data through the MythVideo
> interface. I hope you choose the first option so everyone can
> benefit.
>
> 4. I configured Storage Groups to match the directories I was
> previously
> using, including Fanart, Banners, and the such. Running jamu with the
>
> move feature *moved* the video files to the appropriate paths, but
> left
> most of the fanart, banners, etc alone. This hasn't been a problem --
>
> but it didn't seem consistent (some of the artwork has *moved* to the
>
> appropriate path).
> Answer: Jamu does not move graphics files. The move function will move
>
> video files/symlinks and other files in the video source directory to
> a
> video destination directory and update any existing meta data record
> with the new video file location.
>
> If I understand your question correctly you expected Jamu to have
> changed the videometadata paths for graphics to relative paths. Jamu
> only updates the graphic paths when the file does not exist at the
> location in the videometadata record. In the case you describe I
> assume
> the SG graphics path is the same as the paths that are in the
> videometadata record so to Jamu nothing is wrong, which implies no
> updates.
>
Doug,
Thanks for clearing all that up.
One thing I took from this, is if I want to update a large number of video
files I would need to go into videometadata and clear one meta data item...
(like changing all the dates to 0) which would have the effect of doing a
mass update -- without downloading any images I already have. Doing this
would also allow changes to the config file to have an effect. Any problems
with this approach?
Nasa
BTW: have you notice the tmdb has created a "genre hierarchy" (http://themoviedb.org/encyclopedia/category/1) The top level genre look ok.
Any idea how that would interact with myth?
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