[mythtv-users] Dropping all metadata

[Frans Grotepass]

On Tuesday 16 November 2010 01:55:08 Greg wrote:
> On 11/15/2010 05:23 PM, Greg Oliver wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 4:10 PM, Greg<greg12866 at nycap.rr.com>  wrote:
> >> On 11/15/2010 02:43 PM, Frans Grotepass wrote:
> >>> Hi all,
> >>> 
> >>> My mythtv setup has been running now for several months. During a
> >>> recent upgrade to 0.24 I read about configuring the metadata for the
> >>> vids. With many of the files having incorrect names, I did my first
> >>> jamu run with poorly named files. Which tables must be dropped from the
> >>> DB to clean up all the metadata? Is there also metadata in the files
> >>> themselves (like ID3 tags?) The naming convention has been altered and
> >>> the file names are now consistent (Thanks to vim and block mode
> >>> cutting and pasting).
> >> 
> >> What I have done in the past is create a temp directory and move all my
> >> video's to it,go into mythvideo ,and scan,and nothing should show up...
> >> Move your videos back,rescan and you should see mythvideo downloading
> >> the metadata..No need to touch the db...
> > 
> > Excellent idea!  I just tested changing permissions as well.  That's
> > another way to do it without moving any files.  Just make the
> > directory unreadable to the mythtv backend user.
>
> That's another good idea.. I will give that a try the next time the need
> arises...

Dove into the DB (I do some sql for my work) and dug around. Just deleted all 
the records on the DB. in the videometadata table.