[mythtv-users] Automating the Video Manager

David Campbell dave at cpfc.org
Wed Oct 24 17:46:18 UTC 2007


Doug Young wrote:
>> "yes to all" is for me pretty dangerous because my videos are on the
>> file server which is not always and not always mounted. "yes to all"
>> would delete all metadata when file server is not online.
>>
>> and adding more than directory to mythvideo would also be nice...
>> instead of making symlinks etc... but this is getting to much OT...
> 
> I second the "pretty dangerous" ... many of my videos are stored on
> the network, often on my kids' windows boxen.  I don't want all my
> metadata to disappear just because they rebooted their windows machine
> (happens much more often than my backend restarting) and Samba hasn't
> reconnected to it.  Heck...I have my "player" script in place to
> detect these links, and if they're broken attempt to remount the
> filesystem before failing.
> 
> In addition, I don't want videos added without myself or my wife
> coming in and making a decision on "parental control" level
> (showlevel).  Unfortunately, I see no easy way to automate this step.
> 

It would be trivial to set flags on the script to only update new shows 
and meta daqta automagically and leave all else alone...

Dave


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