[mythtv-users] More Questions about JAMU

[Nasa]

----- "Doug Vaughan" <r.d.vaughan at rogers.com> wrote:

> Nasa,
> 
> 1. When you run jamu in maintenance mode does it update the genre on
> the 
> different video files?  If I read the wiki right, it should... 
> However,
> Answer: When a video needs to add a genre the genre is added to the 
> global genre pool, at the time of the new genre addition ONLY that 
> specific video gets associated with the new genre.
> 
> 1a. Given jamu does this for vidoes that don't have any genre list,
> how 
> does it handle videos that have an incomplete list of genre?
> Answer: If a video already has at least one associated genre no 
> maintenance update is triggered even if there are some new data at
> TMDB 
> or TVDB. If some other meta data field(s) are missing  an update is 
> triggered and all missing data or changed data that is newly available
> 
> gets updated including genres. Again this will only happen when some 
> data is missing.
> 
> If for some reason you feel that a video has incomplete or out of date
> 
> information then update the video using MythVideos "w" key. That will
> 
> refresh the meta data. The alternative of checking on each video on 
> every maintenance run could impact you personal bandwidth usage and 
> adversely impact the two free resources we are so dependant on.
> 
> 2. The wiki says to run the mass update without editing the genre list
> 
> from themoviedb -- if that includes genre like "indie" which you don't
> 
> want, should jamu remove it from films that have it listed as such?
> Answer: Jamu does not have that feature. The comment on the wiki was
> to 
> protect a user from eliminating meta data until they actually saw how
> it 
> was used in the "new" MythUI.
> 
> 3. I have a whole bunch of cartoons...  Some are correctly ID'd as 
> animations, while some (in the same series) are not.  How do I fix
> this? 
> (Same type of question for BSG -- none of them are listed as Sci-fi)
> Answer: Jamu is at the mercy of the source of the meta data (tvdb and
> 
> tmdb). You have two choices get an edit account on both TVDB and TMDB
> 
> and add missing data or edit the meta data through the MythVideo 
> interface. I hope you choose the first option so everyone can
> benefit.
> 
> 4. I configured Storage Groups to match the directories I was
> previously 
> using, including Fanart, Banners, and the such.  Running jamu with the
> 
> move feature *moved* the video files to the appropriate paths, but
> left 
> most of the fanart, banners, etc alone.  This hasn't been a problem --
> 
> but it didn't seem consistent (some of the artwork has *moved* to the
> 
> appropriate path).
> Answer: Jamu does not move graphics files. The move function will move
> 
> video files/symlinks and other files in the video source directory to
> a 
> video destination directory and update any existing meta data record 
> with the new video file location.
> 
> If I understand your question correctly you expected Jamu to have 
> changed the videometadata paths for graphics to relative paths. Jamu 
> only updates the graphic paths when the file does not exist at the 
> location in the videometadata record. In the case you describe I
> assume 
> the SG graphics path is the same as the paths that are in the 
> videometadata record so to Jamu nothing is wrong, which implies no
> updates.
> 
Doug,

Thanks for clearing all that up.  

One thing I took from this, is if I want to update a large number of video 
files I would need to go into videometadata and clear one meta data item... 
(like changing all the dates to 0) which would have the effect of doing a 
mass update -- without downloading any images I already have.  Doing this 
would also allow changes to the config file to have an effect. Any problems 
with this approach?

Nasa

BTW: have you notice the tmdb has created a "genre hierarchy" (http://themoviedb.org/encyclopedia/category/1) The top level genre look ok.  
Any idea how that would interact with myth?