[mythtv-users] Some Videos Not Seen by Scan

[John Pilkington]

On 09/08/17 14:25, Mark Goldberg wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 5:55 AM, Dan Wilga wrote:
>  >
>  > On 8/8/17 4:41 PM, Mark Goldberg wrote:
>  >>
>  >> I have added some videos and do a rescan. Some videos are not seen 
> or added to the list. I can rename those videos and they are still not 
> seen on a rescan. I can put them in a different subdirectory and they 
> are still not seen.
>  >
>  > One other thing to look at: do you use "parental levels" for videos? 
> If so, the videos might have already been added, but are hidden because 
> your default parental level is lower than that of the missing videos.
> 
> 
> On 08/09/17, John Pilkington wrote:
>  >On 08/08/17 22:35, John Pilkington wrote:
>  >> On 08/08/17 21:41, Mark Goldberg wrote:
>  >>> I have added some videos and do a rescan. Some videos are not seen or
>  >>> added to the list. I can rename those videos and they are still not
>  >>> seen on a rescan. I can put them in a different subdirectory and they
>  >>> are still not seen.
>  >>>
>  >>> This is on mythtv 0.28.1-3 from rpmfusion on Fedora 26.r
>  >>>
>  >>> Any suggestions how to troubleshoot this?
>  >>>
>  >>> Thanks,
>  >>>
>  >>> Mark
>  >>
>  >> Have you tried scanning an empty videos folder first? AIUI a video is
>  >> not added if its hash is already present.
>  >
>  >I'm not sure that fits what you say, though. The Video path can be set
>  >up either via Storage Groups in mythtvsetup or in the frontend via Setup
>  > Media Settings. A mismatch?
> 
> I have videos set up in mythsetup for years.  They are in one 
> directory,  /archives/videos.
> In a subdirectory, /archives/videos/hdv, I am creating h.264 / PCM files 
> with names like
> MVI_6007_5994_18D.MOV
> MVI_6007_5994_18E.MOV
> MVI_6007_5994_18F.MOV
> MVI_6007_5994_18G.MOV
> with ffmpeg, trying different encoding parameters.
> 
> I do a rescan, and I can see the first two files but not the second two. 
> All are original files, not downloaded from anywhere and have no 
> matching metadata.
> 
> Mediainfo for the files seen and not seen is the same except for the 
> filename.
> 
> I can do a "touch junk.mov" in that subdirectory, and that is seen after 
> a scan, but it obviously complains when trying to play it as it is empty.
> 
> I hope this explains things better.
> 
> I am not sure how to scan an empty video folder. There is just one 
> option, rescan the whole directory.
> 
> I am not using parental levels.
> 
> Mark

Create an empty directory, define it as your video source in 
mythtvsetup-or-media-files, and scan it. Then go back to your original 
configuration and rescan.  I don't think this has changed recently, but
Ticket #10500 was perhaps similar.  Or search 'mythtv video hash'

Perhaps your ffmpeg processes gave identical results.