[mythtv-users] leanfront Videos

[Stephen Worthington]

On Mon, 13 Apr 2020 09:11:55 -0400, you wrote:

>I automatically put new videos into my Video storage group.  I've noticed
>that on Leanfront if I do a refresh it will not show the new videos unless
>I first go into mythfrontend on any platform and do the Media Library ->
>Watch Videos -> menu -> scan for new videos.
>
>That's also what is needed for mythfrontend's list of videos.
>
>So I'm guessing the backend keeps the list of videos and that list is not
>updated until a frontend asked for it to be re-scanned.
>
>The refresh on Leanfront must not trigger the same backend function that
>mythfrontend rescan triggers?
>
>Jim A

Depending on how many videos you have, the scan can take a very long
time - far too long for anyone to want to wait in front of a frontend
for it to complete before they could do anything with the frontend. So
it is better to do it when you add a new video to the videos storage
group.  The scan can also be triggered from mythutil:

mythutil --scanvideos

which is what I do.  There probably should be a way for leanfront to
trigger a scan, but you do not want it to be done every time you bring
up the list of videos.