[mythtv-users] Auto scan of video library

[Phil Wild]

On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 10:11 AM, Phil Wild <phil at holobyte.com.au> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 3:57 AM, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 1/7/2013 11:28, Phil Wild wrote:
>>>
>>> So from cron, I can perform a nice /usr/bin/mythutil -q --scanvideos
>>> every hour to pick up new content.
>>
>>
>> Every hour? That's awfully excessive. Why not just run it manually whenever you rip a new DVD/Bluray?
>
> You are right, it is. I run mythlink.pl after every recording to
> rebuild that for my plex server and I should take the same approach
> with this. I can easily run the mythutil -q --scanvideos after the
> addition of a rip and I will do that.
>
> It doesn't answer my question though... How do I trigger a metadata
> lookup on the master server after the scanvideos on the master server
> completes?
>
> As I know the name and full path of the file I am adding to my video
> collection (or in some cases files if it is a TV series DVD), would I
> be better off taking another approach?
>
Just looking through the wiki and I spotted this

"Mass Metadata Grabbing

As of .24, the video library can (and will, by default) automatically
attempt to grab all metadata for items as they are inserted into the
library. The default name-matching algorithm is set to a low tolerance
to prevent false positives as much as possible, so some items may need
a manual query if there are multiple items of the same name or
multiple very closely named items."

So does this mean that a "mythutil --scanvideos" will also trigger the
metadata lookup when run on the master?

Cheers

Phil