[mythtv-users] Mythutil ScanVideos not updating Video Metadata

[Michael T. Dean]

On 01/10/2014 02:51 PM, Raymond Wagner wrote:
> On Jan 10, 2014, at 14:28, A Desai wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 1:19 PM, Raymond Wagner wrote:
>>> On Jan 10, 2014, at 12:30, A Desai wrote:
>>>> 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?
>>> The bulk metadata grabber only exists in the frontend.  Calling "mythutil --scan-videos" will not trigger it.
>>
>> So if I am understanding it right, there is no other way to do this except actually be on the Frontend (either Backend or the frontend box) and do a Scan for changes. I was hoping that if the mythutils lets it find the new video, why would it not let it do the next step - find the artwork?
> It expects the video library to be open so it can pop up questions to the user when there are multiple choices, and there's not really any value to metadata without there being a frontend to view it.  The only reason that was added was for users who only access the video library through UPnP to update their content list.  The UPnP server had previously maintained its own independent auto updated list for that purpose.

So, basically, the best solution is to use mythfrontend (on your 
dedicated frontend--no need to start mythfrontend on your backend host) 
to Scan for Videos.  This won't take that much effort since you'll only 
need to do it when you add new videos, which only happens every once in 
a while when you go out and buy new videos and rip them (assuming that's 
legal in your area of the world) to place in Video Library or when you 
move recordings to Video Library for archival (and since Scan for Videos 
is a negligible amount of work compared to the rest of 
editing/cutting/moving recordings for archival in Video Library, that's 
no big deal, either) or when you create your own videos (which, again, 
is a huge process compared to Scan for Videos, and, really, wouldn't 
have any associated metadata, so I'm guessing you're not talking about 
home videos).

Mike