[mythtv-users] Keeping the MythVideo db up2date

[Raymond Wagner]

> From: Robert Dege
> Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2013 1:56 PM
>
> On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com>
wrote:
> > From: Robert Dege
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2013 12:39 PM
> >
> > > I was able to get it working with incrond, but doesn't recursively
monitor
> > > the folder.
>>
> > Could you elaborate on that a bit more?  The scan process in the backend
> > should operate almost identically to that in the frontend.
>
> When I copy a file from my Windows7 box to the Videos folder on my
mythbox, the
> video will not appear in "Watch Videos" until after I run mythutil
--scanvideos.  I am
> trying to figure out a way that I can automate this process, unless you
know of a
> built-in function that will do this automatically?  I have gone through
the setup on
> both mythtv-setup and mythfrontend, but haven't found anything.

Ok, so you actually mean "continuously", not "recursively".  Saying it
doesn't operate recursively would mean it doesn't properly descend into the
directory tree, and only updates content at the top level.

To be honest, I've never really seen a reason for such capability.  Either
you're going to be adding videos manually, through ripping a DVD or Bluray,
or copying content off some recording device, at which point you can just as
well manually trigger a scan, or you've got some program automatically
adding content, in which case that program can automatically trigger a scan
at the same time.  The only scenario I can think where it would make sense
to auto-update the content list is for users who aren't using the frontend
at all, and are accessing it from a UPnP client that cannot trigger a scan.