[mythtv-users] Mythtv Sql DB....which table/field tells myth to query the external databases?

Another Sillyname anothersname at googlemail.com
Fri Sep 25 06:28:55 UTC 2015


processed it is....thanks Mark.

Given the size of the library doing it manually is just WAY too
painful......using a script to reset once you've worked out the
'correct' title is so much simpler!!

On 25 September 2015 at 00:27, Mark Perkins <perkins1724 at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> On 25 Sep 2015, at 8:30 am, Frank Phillips <frankalso at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 6:51 AM, Another Sillyname
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>> Hi All
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>> I'm just trying to do some housekeeping of my video library and as
>> part of the process want to tidy up some of the metadata that's been
>> collected in the past.
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>> To this end I want to tell the database to 're-collect' from ttvdb and
>> tmdb using the grabbers, while I appreciate I can go through every
>> instance manually and tell the episode to regrab as there's a lot of
>> them I'd rather have a rule based script that resets the appropriate
>> flag in the DB to tell the grabber to activate on the next scan.
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>> I would have thought it might have been collectionref field in
>> videometadata table or somewhere there but can't see it.......can
>> anyone give me a quick pointer to save having to read for an hour.
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> Check out mythmetadatalookup --help.
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> Mythmetadatalookup was my thought too, but it may go through and redo all
> recordings as well (which may or may not be an issue for you).
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> I had long running issues with mythvideo some time ago. I'm not sure I
> recall 100% but I think I set the processed flag back to 0 in videometadata
> to re trigger the matching process and metadata lookup.
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> But the supported way is to probably remove your video directory from the
> video storage group, scan for changes which will wipe your video database
> clean, add the directory back and then scan for changes to bring everything
> back. I didn't want to use this method personally because I had probably
> some 300 odd video files that myth wouldn't correctly identify because it
> can't parse the year in the file name and I didn't want to manually rematch
> them all again.
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