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

[jedi]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 12:03:07AM -0500, jarpublic at gmail.com wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 11:54 PM, jedi <jedi at mishnet.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 02:22:38PM +1100, Jean-Yves Avenard wrote:
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > 2009/2/17 jedi <jedi at mishnet.org>:
> > > > ...unless you are comfortable writing data to the relevant tables
> > yourself,
> > > > then the answer is no. It would be really handy if it were otherwise
> > though.
> > > > OTOH, a homemade automated solution is not too difficult.
> > >
> > > You don't have to..
> > > there is an automated solution available.. works great
> >
> >   Where? I'm not just talking about the basic detection of files. I also
> > mean setting metadata and fetching posters. Being able to run it in cron
> > would also be handy.
> >
> >
> Check back through this thread. I suggested imdb bulk updater and provided a
> link. Don't confuse it with the standard imdb.pl script. It does depend on
> that script though. Imdb bulk updater is a script that will do everything

    Yeah, but I thought that was against their TOS now. I would have thought
that to be a "discouraged" solution at this point.

> you suggest. It has command line switches for each of the feature you need
> and more: It will add new files, remove missing files (if you want), fetch
> metadata and posters from imdb, and it can be run from cron. I use it
> regularly and it works great. Occasionally I don't like the poster that gets
> pulled from imdb so I will go into mythweb and add a better one.