[mythtv-users] Automatically retrieving Video Details

James Abernathy jfabernathy at gmail.com
Fri Nov 5 19:02:51 UTC 2021


On Fri, Nov 5, 2021 at 2:14 PM Roland Ernst <rcrernst at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Fri, Nov 5, 2021 at 2:59 PM James Abernathy <jfabernathy at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> On Fri, Nov 5, 2021 at 9:30 AM Peter Bennett <pb.mythtv at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> On 11/5/21 6:38 AM, James Abernathy wrote:
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>>> I had those settings, but apparently you need to just leave the frontend
>>> alone while it processes the request.  There is no indication it's running
>>> but the screen background artwork flashes blank and then back on every few
>>> seconds.  The keyboard is not too responsive while it's working but you can
>>> see the text updated on the videos,
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>>> Thank,
>>> JIm A
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> There is a request that we should apply a 'nice' level to the metadata
> grabber commands (i.e.: running with lower priority).
> Can you please post the output of `top` and `htop` when doing a scan with
> metadata update?
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> Roland
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At this point all 500 videos have descriptions and thumbnails.  So the scan
and retrieve all does nothing.  How can I delete all that data so that I
can rerun with htop running?

Jim A
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