[mythtv-users] How to manually run "Update Video Database"?

Nick Rout nick.rout at gmail.com
Sun Feb 15 23:24:15 UTC 2009


On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 8:36 AM, Matt Nelson <matt at frozenatom.com> wrote:
> When you go into the "Video Manager" in mythtv, it will update your database
> with any files that you have added in the mythvideo path.  Is there anyway
> to run this manually?  I would like to add this into a cron...

I think the short answer is no, the longer answer may lie in 0.22, but
I'm not too sure..
One reason is that it is often interactive, with messages like "file
/mythvideo/startrek/season1/s1e01.avi is missing, delete from
database?" coming up and requiring an answer.


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