[mythtv-users] scan for changes

[Tom Lichti]

On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com> wrote:
> On 3/26/2012 12:58, Mike Perkins wrote:
>>
>> On 26/03/12 04:45, Raymond Wagner wrote:
>>>
>>> On 3/25/2012 22:51, Joe Mythtv wrote:
>>>
>>>> I wish there were a command line way to initiate the scan - I could run
>>>> my own script to look at the 'new footage' folder and rescan when I see
>>>> new
>>>> files.
>>>
>>>
>>> In 0.25, there is an option in 'mythutil' to trigger a scan in the master
>>> backend. Prior to that, JAMU had a scanner, and there was a scanner built
>>> into
>>> the Python bindings. What I'm getting at is that none of that should be
>>> necessary, and the interactive scanner should be plenty fast. I'm
>>> interested in
>>> whether there might be some flaw in the scanner that needs to be
>>> resolved.
>>>
>> I'm currently importing some videos which need heavy editing beforehand,
>> so I'm doing it on another machine elsewhere on the network which does not
>> have myth on it. Once I'm satisfied I'm copying them to the video storage
>> directory via NFS.
>>
>> It would be useful to be able to trigger a rescan when I'm done for the
>> day. Most of these videos are for my son who isn't up to rescanning when he
>> brings up the front end, and I often forget. A remotely-run mythutil option
>> would be useful in this circumstance. Speed is not important in this case.
>
>
> If you have some script set up to automate much of this process, I would
> actually consider it better to have that script add the video itself.
>  Tacking this onto the end of the script should perform the same process as
> the scanner would, only selectively.
>
>
> from MythTV import Video, VideoGrabber
> vid = Video.fromFilename(<filename relative to SG root>)
> vid.create()
> ## if movie
> grab = VideoGrabber('movie')
> res = grab.sortedSearch(vid.title)
> if (len(res) == 1) or ((len(res) > 1) and (res[0].levenshtein == 0)):
>    vid.importMetadata(res[0])
> ## if television
> grab = VideoGrabber('television')
> res = grab.sortedSearch(vid.title, vid.subtitle)
> if (len(res) == 1) or ((len(res) > 1) and (res[0].levenshtein == 0)):
>    vid.importMetadata(grab.grabInetref(res[0].inetref, res[0].season,
> res[0].episode))

That looks like a neat way to do it. Is there a corresponding
recording function? Right now I have a hand crafted script that copies
records from videos into recordings, but having an easier way of doing
it would be nice. Or perhaps a better question would be is there
documentation about what methods are available in the bindings? I know
I've tried to look and haven't had much success in the past, maybe
things have changed, or I just wasn't looking in the right place?

Thanks
Tom