[mythtv-users] Settings for videos.

[Stephen Worthington]

On Thu, 22 Nov 2018 11:08:46 -0600, you wrote:

>On 2018-11-21 20:45, Stephen Worthington wrote:
>[snip]
>
>Great info, thanks. It would be very handy not to have to scan for 
>videos manually. Though I am often in the videos screen already so I 
>guess that wouldn't help there.
>
>I guess the other thing on my mind is that the effect of having 
>directories that are in the path in the path. So, for example, if I had 
>/var/lib/mythtv/videos:/var/lib/mythtv/videos/cartoons. From looking at 
>the metadata table, it shouldn't confuse anything there but could it 
>cause issues elsewhere?

There is no need to have subdirectories specified - anything under the
top level directory will be scanned for video files.  Adding
subdirectories like that will likely just get them scanned twice,
making it take longer on entry into Watch Videos or when you use the
scan command.