[mythtv-users] How can I exclude a directory from the grabbers?

[Chris Gentle]

Maybe we need a patch that will just look for a hidden file and if it
exists, skip the directory and everything underneath it and move on.  I
find the MythTV code a bit intimidating but I may see what I can come up
with.

On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 7:04 AM, Martin Moores <moores.martin at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 12 January 2015 at 13:01, Chris Gentle <gentlec at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi.  I have a directory in my MythVideo section that includes our
>> family's home videos.  I don't want the metadata grabbers to do lookups
>> on this directory.  As you know, if the grabber finds multiple matches
>> it will sometimes pop things up on the screen to prompt you for a
>> series.  The results it returns for "home movies" or "home videos" is
>> definitely not family-friendly.  So I'm looking for a way to exclude it.
>> Is there some simple way to do this?  Perhaps as simple as just touching
>> a file (.skip) that tells the grabber to skip over it?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> --
>> Chris
>
>
> Chris,
>
> I would love to do the same for some of my directories.  Pretty sure this
> was asked recently on the list however and the answer was that this
> functionality does not currently exist in MythTV.  Can't find the link to
> the question/reply off hand.
>
> Martin
>
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-- 
Chris
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