[mythtv-users] Myth Video Does Not Show File

[Jay Foster]

On 1/27/22 2:36 PM, Jay Foster wrote:
> On 1/27/22 2:16 PM, John Pilkington wrote:
>> On 27/01/2022 21:19, Jay Foster wrote:
>>> On 1/27/22 12:53 PM, Doug Lytle wrote:
>>>>>>> I have one file that will not show up in Myth Video at all.
>>>> File permissions?
>>>>
>>>> Doug
>>
>>>
>>> Nope.  All files are world read-only (chmod 444).
>>>
>>> Jay
>>
>> IIRC the traditional problem with videos is that the file hash is not 
>> unique.  The remedy is to scan an empty video folder, then rescan 
>> your current one.  I have never known what this does to metadata.
>>
>> john P
>> _______________________________________________
>>
> I moved the whole series directory to another location not in Myth 
> Videos, Scanned for Changes, and confirmed all of the moved videos 
> were gone.  Then I moved the files back and Scanned for Changes. The 
> same file still does not show up and I lost all of the meta data.
>
> Jay
>
>
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Looking in the /var/log/mythtv/mythfrontend.log, I see lines like:

Jan 25 14:18:42 mythbox mythfrontend.real: mythfrontend[31397]: E 
VideoScanner videoscan.cpp:336 (updateDB) Hash 814a23e70734e53a already 
exists in the database, updating record 3147 with new filename 
<new-file-name-here>

This indicates to me that not only does this file not show up in Myth 
Videos, but some *other* video (record 3147) now points to this file, 
instead of the correct one.  This seems completely buggered to me.

Jay