[mythtv-users] Video Metadata

Nick Rout nick.rout at gmail.com
Sat Aug 4 22:09:23 UTC 2012


On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 9:45 AM, Joseph Fry <joe at thefrys.com> wrote:
>> > Thanks for the answers so far!
>> >
>> > I'll def look into the cron script for the video scanning.
>> >
>> > I am yet to see the metadata inserting itself in mythvideo without me
>> > pressing the 'w' key. Once I have used a standard file format the
>> > metadata is not loading.
>>
>> once the file has been scanned, and (because it is named wrongly) no
>> metadata is found, it will not be rescanned again, even if you change
>> the file name. Move the files that have been renamed out of your
>> storage group, rescan (and they will be deleted from the dB), move
>> them back and rescan.
>
>
> Or simply select the video and  press ' i ' and select "Change Video
> Details" and use the options there to reset and retrieve details.  If you
> use the retrieve details option, you are provided a list of titles matching
> the query.

thats ok for one or two, gets tedious on whole directories full of files.


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