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

[Raymond Wagner]

On 1/12/2015 7:01 AM, Chris Gentle 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?

The bulk downloader will only ever operate on a video once, after which 
it will flag it as processed and never touch it again. There's no way to 
exclude it outright, except to set that flag in the database manually 
before running the bulk downloader.