[mythtv-users] Automatically retrieving Video Details

James Abernathy jfabernathy at gmail.com
Sat Nov 6 18:03:56 UTC 2021


On Fri, Nov 5, 2021 at 7:23 PM James Abernathy <jfabernathy at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
> On Fri, Nov 5, 2021 at 7:06 PM Roland Ernst <rcrernst at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Jim,
>> If you do a fresh install and run the scan again, please remember my
>> request.
>> Thanks,
>> Roland
>>
>> So if I do a fresh install, it will be just for this data for you so
> let's get the instructions right.
>
> 1. In my Storage Directories definition with mythtv-setup, I'll include
> the directory on my NAS that has the Videos.  That directory is mounted via
> fstab to /mnt/public/media/tv-shows.
> 2.  As Stephen says: mythfrontend > Setup > Videos Settings > Metadata
> Settings > Perform
> metadata update after video scan to checked.
> 3. with mythfrontend, in Media library -> watch videos - 'm' Retrieve all
> details.
>
> I think that is what you want.  I'm guessing you want top or htop run from
> a ssh session on another computer into my combo FE/BE doing the scan. How
> do you capture what you want to see since both programs, to me, are
> realtime and I've never capture their output.
>
> JIm A
>

Here's an attempt of capturing top output during retrieving details from
online data sources.

I put the output text files on Google Drive.  Here is a link:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/13LkEpTGZHT8EQaMZwOAa-ESPtCYKrNRI?usp=sharing

JIm A
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