[mythtv-users] Video Metadata

Raymond Wagner raymond at wagnerrp.com
Sun Aug 5 05:59:14 UTC 2012


On 8/4/2012 14:56, Chris Gentle wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 8:15 AM, Tim Raphael <raphael.timothy at gmail.com
> <mailto:raphael.timothy at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
>
> The other confusing thing is that running "mythmetadatalookup
> --refresh-all" only seems to lookup data for recordings and ignores
> MythVideo completely.  That seems like the logical way to force a
> metadata lookup for both recordings and videos.  Oh well ...

`mythmetadatalookup` operates on recordings, as recordings are 
frequently changing.  On the other hand, videos are static and only 
change when you perform a scan.  There is no reason to run over those 
repeatedly.


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