[mythtv-users] Video Library vs. Watch Recordings

[Raymond Wagner]

On 10/6/2013 3:30 PM, Jim Stichnoth wrote:
>
> On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 12:20 PM, Eric Sharkey <eric at lisaneric.org
> <mailto:eric at lisaneric.org>> wrote:
>
>     On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 12:44 PM, Brian J. Murrell
>     <brian at interlinx.bc.ca <mailto:brian at interlinx.bc.ca>> wrote:
>      > Just having to manually "Scan for Changes" on every front-end...
>
>     You shouldn't need to do that.  After scanning for changes once, you
>     should not need to repeat the scan on additional frontends.
>
> The real issue here is probably the fact that the other frontend won't
> "see" the changes from the rescan until it exits and re-enters the Video
> Gallery.  The Watch Recordings screen is super-awesome in that backend
> changes are reflected in real time.

Ideally, the backend would broadcast an update event, and the video 
library would hook off it to refresh itself, similar to how the 
Playbackbox functions. We actually already send the event, but the Video 
Library has not yet been programmed to do anything with it.