[mythtv-users] [mythvideo] disable metadata lookup for certain directories

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Hika,

Sunday, May 28, 2023, 4:18:38 AM, you wrote:

> Hoi Peter,

> Wednesday, May 24, 2023, 5:13:58 PM, you wrote:


>> On 5/24/23 04:39, Thomas Boehm wrote:
>>> On 23/05/2023 16:08, Peter Bennett wrote:
>>>> Are you referring to the automatic lookup when scanning  for new 
>>>> videos from mythfrontend, mythutil --scanvideos, or some other process? 
>>>
>>> Hi Peter,
>>>
>>> sorry for the direct email, but your email didn't have a Reply-To 
>>> header. So here it is again fot the list.
>>>
>>> -----
>>>
>>> I'm referring to the scan in the frontend. I guess as a workoround I 
>>> could run "mythutil --scanvideos" and fill the inetref column in the 
>>> videometadata table with zeroes if filename contains the folder 
>>> afterwards.
>>>
>>> But a better way would be to have something like .nolookup in the 
>>> folder or if it would be possible to disable metadatalookup per 
>>> storagegroup. Then I could put these videos in its own storagegroup.
>>>
>>>
>> AFAIK there is only one storage group for videos, i.e. "Videos".

>> I think that a per directory setting would make more sense. Please 
>> create an issue (Feature Request) in MythTV at 
>> https://github.com/MythTV/mythtv/issues and I will look into 
>> implementing it.

>> Peter

> At present you have movies and series, how about adding a third group
> say "private" with no metadata lookup to put everything else into?

Or an open ended number of configurable storage groups? With the
current two as a default start set?


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