[mythtv-users] scan for changes

Mike Perkins mikep at randomtraveller.org.uk
Mon Mar 26 17:56:13 UTC 2012


On 26/03/12 18:28, Raymond Wagner wrote:
> On 3/26/2012 12:58, Mike Perkins wrote:
>> On 26/03/12 04:45, Raymond Wagner wrote:
>>> On 3/25/2012 22:51, Joe Mythtv wrote:
>>>
>>>> I wish there were a command line way to initiate the scan - I could run
>>>> my own script to look at the 'new footage' folder and rescan when I see new
>>>> files.
>>>
>>> In 0.25, there is an option in 'mythutil' to trigger a scan in the master
>>> backend. Prior to that, JAMU had a scanner, and there was a scanner built into
>>> the Python bindings. What I'm getting at is that none of that should be
>>> necessary, and the interactive scanner should be plenty fast. I'm interested in
>>> whether there might be some flaw in the scanner that needs to be resolved.
>>>
>> I'm currently importing some videos which need heavy editing beforehand, so
>> I'm doing it on another machine elsewhere on the network which does not have
>> myth on it. Once I'm satisfied I'm copying them to the video storage directory
>> via NFS.
>>
>> It would be useful to be able to trigger a rescan when I'm done for the day.
>> Most of these videos are for my son who isn't up to rescanning when he brings
>> up the front end, and I often forget. A remotely-run mythutil option would be
>> useful in this circumstance. Speed is not important in this case.
>
> If you have some script set up to automate much of this process, I would
> actually consider it better to have that script add the video itself. Tacking
> this onto the end of the script should perform the same process as the scanner
> would, only selectively.
>
>
> from MythTV import Video, VideoGrabber
> vid = Video.fromFilename(<filename relative to SG root>)
> vid.create()
> ## if movie
> grab = VideoGrabber('movie')
> res = grab.sortedSearch(vid.title)
> if (len(res) == 1) or ((len(res) > 1) and (res[0].levenshtein == 0)):
> vid.importMetadata(res[0])
> ## if television
> grab = VideoGrabber('television')
> res = grab.sortedSearch(vid.title, vid.subtitle)
> if (len(res) == 1) or ((len(res) > 1) and (res[0].levenshtein == 0)):
> vid.importMetadata(grab.grabInetref(res[0].inetref, res[0].season, res[0].episode))
>
An interesting idea. Currently I don't have a script, but I really should do... 
then all I have to do is teach myself python :)

I'll look into it. What you say is obvious, that you shouldn't have to scan the 
whole shooting match each time another file is added.

-- 

Mike Perkins



More information about the mythtv-users mailing list