[mythtv-users] Automatically retrieving Video Details

James Abernathy jfabernathy at gmail.com
Sun Nov 7 00:30:16 UTC 2021


On Sat, Nov 6, 2021 at 2:03 PM James Abernathy <jfabernathy at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> On Fri, Nov 5, 2021 at 7:23 PM James Abernathy <jfabernathy at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> 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:
>
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> https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/13LkEpTGZHT8EQaMZwOAa-ESPtCYKrNRI?usp=sharing
>
> JIm A
>

BTW, these files each contain 3 iterations each created by:
*top -b -n 3 >test.txt*

Jim A
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