[mythtv-users] Video Metadata

[Igor Cicimov]

On Aug 4, 2012 1:10 AM, "Tim Raphael" <raphael.timothy at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I have a few questions about 0.25 and metadata for video files in the
gallery.
>
> 1) What is the correct way to have the frontend perform a periodic
> scan of the video library?
> I would like it such that the user never needs to do this from the GUI
> as I have a very large library that is altered constantly and takes
> time to update.

Tou can run "mythutil --scanvideos" from a cron script

> 2) What is the correct procedure for adding metadata on mass to video
> files in the gallery - not recordings, videos.
> Running the Ttvdb.py script on the commandline doesn't produce any
> results. The only way I have gotten this to work so far is hitting 'w'
> while the specific episode is selected in mythtv. I have ~1800 TV show
> epiosdes and this simply is not an option for filling metadata one
> episode at a time.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tim
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