<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 2:39 PM, Raymond Wagner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:raymond@wagnerrp.com" target="_blank">raymond@wagnerrp.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">> From: Robert Dege<br>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2013 1:56 PM<br>
<div class="im">><br>
> On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Raymond Wagner <<a href="mailto:raymond@wagnerrp.com">raymond@wagnerrp.com</a>><br>
wrote:<br>
> > From: Robert Dege<br>
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2013 12:39 PM<br>
> ><br>
> > > I was able to get it working with incrond, but doesn't recursively<br>
monitor<br>
> > > the folder.<br>
>><br>
> > Could you elaborate on that a bit more? The scan process in the backend<br>
> > should operate almost identically to that in the frontend.<br>
><br>
</div><div class="im">> When I copy a file from my Windows7 box to the Videos folder on my<br>
mythbox, the<br>
> video will not appear in "Watch Videos" until after I run mythutil<br>
--scanvideos. I am<br>
> trying to figure out a way that I can automate this process, unless you<br>
know of a<br>
> built-in function that will do this automatically? I have gone through<br>
the setup on<br>
> both mythtv-setup and mythfrontend, but haven't found anything.<br>
<br>
</div>Ok, so you actually mean "continuously", not "recursively". Saying it<br>
doesn't operate recursively would mean it doesn't properly descend into the<br>
directory tree, and only updates content at the top level.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div style>I think that's exactly what he meant... it monitors a folder, but not it's subdirectories. He needed a solution that continuously monitors a folder recursively to detect changes in any of it's subdirectories.</div>
<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<br>
To be honest, I've never really seen a reason for such capability. Either<br>
you're going to be adding videos manually, through ripping a DVD or Bluray,<br>
or copying content off some recording device, at which point you can just as<br>
well manually trigger a scan, or you've got some program automatically<br>
adding content, in which case that program can automatically trigger a scan<br>
at the same time. The only scenario I can think where it would make sense<br>
to auto-update the content list is for users who aren't using the frontend<br>
at all, and are accessing it from a UPnP client that cannot trigger a scan.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div style>I can think of a few circumstances where manual scans may be an issue. For example my wife stores home videos to our mythserver via SMB... then runs the update from the frontend. But if we used upnp instead of the frontend, I may be looking for a similar solution.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>It would be nice if the backend had an option to allow it to automatically update whenever files in the videos storage groups changed. It could replace the, arguably pointless, browse filesystem mode.</div>
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