[mythtv-users] Mythutil ScanVideos not updating Video Metadata

A Desai ashu.desai at gmail.com
Fri Jan 10 17:31:22 UTC 2014


On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 11:30 AM, A Desai <ashu.desai at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 7:29 AM, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com>wrote:
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>> On 1/9/2014 11:34 PM, Stephen P. Villano wrote:
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>>> I'm still trying to figure out where to run mythutil --scanvideos from.
>>> The primary BE or the slave BE.
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>>  You run it from a terminal.
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>> Mythutil does not scan for anything.  It connects to the master backend,
>> where ever that may be, and tells the master backend to perform a scan.
>>  The master backend in turn reaches out to all connected slave backends,
>> and refreshes the content for the whole lot.
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Sorry for replying at the top instead of at the bottom. Honest mistake...


> I think I wasn't articulate enough to report my problem.
> Yes, I know I can run the Scan from Frontend as well. What I am trying to
> say is whether there is a way I can update the artwork for all my newly
> added videos via a CLI (like mythutil --scanvideos) or do I have to do the
> Menu/Scan for changes every time?
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