[mythtv-users] Mythvideo: series suddenly renames itself

Gordon McCrae gordon.mccrae at gmail.com
Fri Jan 20 23:13:23 UTC 2012


On 20/01/12 22:07, Nick Rout wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 11:01 AM, Jean-Yves Avenard<jyavenard at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> I've found an issue today with mythvideo.
>>
>> For some reason, one video never showed up in the listing, no matter how
>> many scan I performed.
>>
>> Turned out I had the exact same file in another folder (the folder where I
>> first ripped everything), same file but different name.
>>
>> The file is only listed once..
>>
>> A tad confusing
> It's the fact that the files are hashed, and once scanned it is never
> looked at again even if you change the file name or location (unless
> you move it right out of the scan path)
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It is in fact "looked at" again (at least in my 0.24.1 system). You get 
a message stating that it's found an entry with the same hash, but 
different name and updates the database entry to reflect the new file name.

There's commentary in the Wiki that states "The location of any video 
content will be updated automatically based off a matching hash, with no 
loss of metadata, next time a /*Scan For Changes*/ is triggered from the 
/*Watch Videos*/ menu."

What also happens though is that it also seems to flip-flop between the 
two names (assuming there's tow duplicate entries) each time you rescan. 
Raymond Wagner produced a script to remove duplicates blindly from the 
database so that there was only 1 unique entry.

You can also run mythfrontend and save the output to a file then look 
through it for the duplicate messages and sort them out manually, giving 
you the opportunity to resolve the problems a little cleaner.

Cheers
Gordon
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