[mythtv-users] 0.25 - mythvideo scanning broken

[Steven Adeff]

On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 7:16 AM, Michael T. Dean
<mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
> On 06/12/2012 12:01 AM, scram69 wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 7:34 PM, Steven Adeff wrote:
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 10:03 PM, Steven Adeff wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 9:50 PM, Steven Adeff wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> the only frontend that is able to properly scan for videos is on my
>>>>> backend machine, none of my other frontends work. oddly, the videos
>>>>> are all stored on another machine, and when I use the frontend on that
>>>>> machine, it removes some of the videos (for no apparent reason).
>>>>>
>>>>> this is very strange, and new, behavior. has anyone else noticed this?
>>>>
>>>> now i'm noticing that if I run a scan on another frontend it removes
>>>> the files the first frontend added, including the frontend on which
>>>> the files exist.
>>>>
>>>> 2012-06-11 22:00:56.882763 I [17674/17695] VideoScanner
>>>> videoscan.cpp:280 (verifyFiles) - Removing file SG(mythbackend)
>>>> :TV/True Blood/Season5/True Blood - s05e01 - Turn! Turn! Turn!.mkv:
>>>>
>>>> but no reason is given as to why? what is it about the "verify" that
>>>> is causing it to remove the files?
>>>>
>>> I dumped my videos table and rescanned and now things look to be
>>> working properly.
>>
>> I've seen this issue as well.  Would you mind posting the syntax you
>>
>> used to dump the videos table?
>
>
> The right way to do this is to remove all "real" directories from your
> Videos Storage Group on all hosts and add in an empty directory, then rescan
> to clear out all of the videos, then fix the Videos Storage Group directory
> list, then rescan to get them back, but with proper MythTV metadata.
>
> Better would be to figure out what broken data you have so that we could
> find a proper fix for it.  The problem could be due to having a "local" file
> path specified in Media Settings.  If you're properly using the Videos
> Storage Group, the local path should be blank.
>
> Mike

I used phpmyadmin (the web interface) to dump the table.

the local path is blank on all frontends. it worked fine up until I
guess a few days ago.


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