[mythtv-users] Scan does not work

[John Pilkington]

On 16/01/17 12:08, James Linder wrote:
> Hi
> I’m using the (suse) distro rpm, which says very little: mythbackend version:  [v0.28] www.mythtv.org
>
> I have scanned my videos in the past. I renamed some to show season and episode. I rescaned with
> mythutils —scanvideos on the backend machine.
> On various frontends the videos have kept the old name.
> I dump the database and can see the new names, so scan did do *something*.
>
> Poking around
>
> select title,filename from videometadata;
> +---------------------------------------+---------------------------------------+
> | title                                 | filename                              |
> +---------------------------------------+---------------------------------------+
> | DMCatsNSharks1                        | DMCatsNSharks5_7.avi                  |
> | DMCtlAltDel15                         | DMCtlAltDel157_5.avi                  |
> | DMDoctorIsOut16                       | DMDoctorIsOut7_8.avi                  |
> | DMEducation14                         | DMEducation7_4.avi                    |
> | etc etc
> +---------------------------------------+———————————————————+
>
> So the TITLE is the original name
> and FILENAME is the current name
>
> what is going on?
> Can the scan be dropped and scan done again?
>
> Thanks
> James

IIRC a video scan will not update unless the file's hash value changes.

Scan an empty directory, then rescan the real one.  But I don't know if 
your renames will survive.

John