[mythtv-users] Mythweb - webserver, scanning collection removes meta-data

[Keith Richie]

On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 10:57 PM, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com> wrote:
> Keith Richie wrote:
>>
>> Using trunk r21939, though this happened in previous releases as well.
>>
>> Using mythweb (the web server ;) ), click on the Video option to
>> browse your video collection, it does not show my complete video
>> collection. All of my frontends do show the video collection (2 stand
>> alone remote front ends, and one backend/frontend). Using storage
>> groups.
>>
>>
>>
>> All of the TV show episodes are displayed. If I click scan collection
>> with Mythweb - it wipes out all metadata for the movies, but leaves
>> the metadata for the TV seasons untouched. It doesn't delete the
>> covers (thank $DEITY!!). After scanning the collection with Mythweb,
>> only the TV seasons are still displayed
>
> Mythweb does not yet understand mythvideo storage groups.  If you use
> storage groups and scan in mythweb, things are going to break.
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If it was because of storage groups, it (mythweb) would not find any
of the collection in the first place. Mythweb does find
anything/everything located in a sub folder. I moved my movies from
/mnt/Movies to /mnt/Movies/test - and they were found. So it does
indeed read and support storage groups.

Once everything was located in sub folders, it mostly works. Mythweb
is still using imdb, so no searching, nor auto meta-data. If I edit
the meta-data with a frontend - everything populates to mythweb.