[mythtv-users] Upgraded to 0.27, now metadata is being downloaded

Stephen Worthington stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz
Tue Sep 24 02:02:00 UTC 2013


On Mon, 23 Sep 2013 11:15:54 -0500, you wrote:

>>> To each their own.  I admit I would never notice a .01% increase
>>> in disk utilization on my master BE (and since it represents less
>>> than 10 minutes of recording, it would not likely be of any additional
>>> concern to me).
>> regardless, it's a bug..
>>
>> if metadata has been set to not be downloaded, it shouldn't be downloaded...
>>
>> someone should open a bug for it... I'll look into it later
>
>Another temporary workaround is to delete the contents and then remove 
>all the write permissions on /var/lib/mythtv/fanart.
>You also need to delete the cached fanart (Just the fanart, not 
>everything!) from 
>/home/youruser/.mythtv/themecache/blue-abstract-wide.1024.768. (or what 
>ever theme you are using)

Thanks, that sounds like it will work better than my fix of replacing
/usr/bin/mythmetadatalookup - it will survive the installation of
updated versions.


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