[mythtv-users] 0.25 lookup metadata as part of jobqueue?

[Raymond Wagner]

On 3/10/2012 17:24, Steven Adeff wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 5:12 PM, Raymond Wagner<raymond at wagnerrp.com>  wrote:
>> On 3/10/2012 16:46, Steven Adeff wrote:
>>> I noticed that metadata lookups are added to the job queue much like
>>> commercial flagging and transcoding.
>>>
>>> is there a way to keep commercial flagging process limited in count
>>> but still have the lookups take place immediately? I can't imagine
>>> they use that much resource that having them run when they are called
>>> for would be a large hit that requires being placed in the queue?
>> At the moment, there is no mechanism for independent queues that would
>> allow mythmetadatalookup to be run immediately.  Note that the task run
>> immediately at the start of recording merely sets the season and episode
>> numbers.  Artwork is not pulled until some time later as part of daily
>> housekeeping measures.
> but that task is placed in the job queue? so if there are 8
> commflagging jobs already in there it would go at the end?

You can artificially backdate the job insertion.  The jobqueue runs 
through tasks sequentially based off insertion date[time], so doing that 
would cause it to be the next task run after current.  MythWeb used to 
accidentally do this by defaulting to some date in 2007, making all jobs 
queued through MythWeb automatically at the top of the list.  However, 
this is not currently being done for mythmetadatalookup.

> is there a way to force the artwork pull? does the metadata have to be
> collected for the artwork to be pulled? is there a way to have it pull
> the metadata for everything currently recorded?

The single-recording behavior run through the jobqueue will only update 
the text metadata, and the text metadata must be available before you 
can pull artwork for it.  You can refresh all text metadata for all 
recordings using the --refresh-all option, and then follow that up with 
artwork using the --refresh-all-artwork option.

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Enhancing_Recordings_with_Metadata_Lookup#Upgrade_Cheat_Sheet