[mythtv-users] Video Metadata
Nick Rout
nick.rout at gmail.com
Sun Aug 5 23:44:19 UTC 2012
On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Chris Gentle <gentlec at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> >> I copy the files using midnight commander to a directory on the same
>> >> disk, it is usually almost instantaneous as no data actually gets
>> >> shifted on disk. eg I have /mnt/videos/videoes/TV/Misnamed_series. The
>> >> SG is set to /mnt/videos/videos. I just move the whole misnamed_series
>> >> directory to /mnt/videos, scan, move back, scan.
>
>
> I found that rescanning videos seems to skip hidden directories and files.
> So, it seems you can rename a directory to be hidden (i.e. with a leading
> dot) and rescan. This will remove the videos in that directory from the
> database. Then remove the leading dot and scan again. That's easier than
> moving files. However, I tested this earlier and still no metadata for the
> series.
What is the series and how are they named? (sorry if I missed that in
the thread above).
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