[mythtv-users] New MythTV popups - Video lookup

[Raymond Wagner]

On 11/11/2013 9:51 AM, Angela wrote:
>>>> In either case, when
>>>> it finds a video with multiple matches, it will pop up and ask the
>>>> user what to do, as you are experiencing.
>>> But which video (file) has it found multiple matches for? The popup
>>> gives no indication. Maybe if the filename could be added to the title
>>> bar of the popup to at least give a hint.
>> The more user-friendly change to behavior would be to move the scan and
>> metadata scan to the backend, and use a temporary table to store these
>> questions, allowing the user to review and respond to them on their time
>> schedule.
> Re-Reading Mark's and Martin's mails, when I am right, the popups occur
> suddenly (not after a scan and the search for metadata which is immediately
> started in the background), I haven't seen this behavior yet.

The background scan sends events to the user interface as it finds them, 
causing them to pop up immediately.  It does not wait until the end of 
the scan, so as you have discovered, the current design can be very 
disruptive if you are running the scan for the first time over a large 
library.