[mythtv-users] Video Metadata

[Nick Rout]

On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Chris Gentle <gentlec at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 3:35 PM, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> once the file has been scanned, and (because it is named wrongly) no
>> metadata is found, it will not be rescanned again, even if you change
>> the file name. Move the files that have been renamed out of your
>> storage group, rescan (and they will be deleted from the dB), move
>> them back and rescan.
>
>
> Would just deleting the information from the videometadata table accomplish
> the same thing?  That seems faster than moving a directory full of videos
> out and back into the storage group.

I used to do that but was told off because doing that doesn't clear
data out of related tables.

I copy the files using midnight commander to a directory on the same
disk, it is usually almost instantaneous as no data actually gets
shifted on disk. eg I have /mnt/videos/videoes/TV/Misnamed_series. The
SG is set to /mnt/videos/videos. I just move the whole misnamed_series
directory to /mnt/videos, scan, move back, scan.