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

[James Linder]

> On 28 May 2023, at 10:32 am, Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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?
> 

Or Videos/mine contining .nolookup
   Videos/ayes
   Videos/bees
etc
James