<div dir="ltr">Hi Peter,<div><br></div><div>Yes I'd worked out that I have to move the file in and out of the recording group to generate a rescan. That slowed me down for a while.</div><div><br></div><div>I had tried adding the date to the filename but putting it in brackets was the magic spell and the search is working for me now. Thanks for that.</div><div><br></div><div>Cranking the loglevel up to 'debug' did provide some useful information too.</div><div><br></div><div>Worth noting that running mythutil --scanvideos logged into the backend log while pressing 'Scan for Changes' on the GUI logged to the frontend one.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, 11 Aug 2023 at 22:42, Peter Bennett <<a href="mailto:pb.mythtv@gmail.com">pb.mythtv@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div>On 8/11/23 13:05, David Watkins wrote:<br>
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<div>I'll do a bit more investigating then. I've a bunch of
orphaned recordings which I've moved into videos and it would
be nice to have a bit of metadata for them.</div>
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<div>The results of scanning are not very successful. I've set
up the sort of filenames described in the Wiki but I can't
tell what site the scanner is going to nor what parameters it
is searching for.</div>
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<div>For example if search manually search TVDB, TVMaze and
TVMovieDB on the web for 'Annika' they all find the 2021 TV
series of that name as the top hit. A myth videoscan finds
other programmes with Annika in the title, and some without,
but never the one I want.</div>
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<div>I'm going to increase the frontend log level and see I that
gives me any clues as to what is going on.</div>
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<div>thanks for replying.</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, 11 Aug 2023 at 17:23,
Peter Bennett <<a href="mailto:pb.mythtv@gmail.com" target="_blank">pb.mythtv@gmail.com</a>>
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<p>The way I do it works well. I name the directory with the series
name and the episodes in the directory as SxxExx.mkv</p>
<p>For Example</p>
<p>Annika/S01E01.mkv</p>
<p>Annika/S01E02.mkv</p>
<p>etc.</p>
<p>In shows where the name is not unique this may not give what you
want. If you search <a href="http://thetvdb.com" target="_blank">thetvdb.com</a> for Annika, you find the 2021
series labeled Annika (2021). In this case, it may help to name
the directory Annika (2021).</p>
<p>To re-scan things that were wrongly scanned, I move the directory
out of the videos storage group. run "mythutil --scanvideos", move
it back into the recording group and run "mythutil --scanvideos"
again. Just renaming it and scanning does not look up the metadata
again.</p>
<p>Peter<br>
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