[mythtv-users] Lookup Metadata Jobs Hang

Bill Meek keemllib at gmail.com
Wed May 4 16:32:52 UTC 2016


On 05/04/2016 09:27 AM, Jay Foster wrote:
> For the past few weeks, I have been having problems where the backend job queue gets stuck.  It is always because of a hung Lookup Metadata
> job.  This prevents commercial flagging jobs from running.
> 1) Why does lookup metadata jobs hang?
> 2) Why do they not error or time out?  This seems like a bug to me.

I'd look at the mythmetadatalookup.log for hints.

> 3) What is the metadata used for?  I never see any of it.

https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Enhancing_Recordings_with_Metadata_Lookup

> 4) How can I disable metadata lookups?

In mythtv-setup, see: "Allow metadata lookup jobs" and turn it off.
Or, you can do it on a per-recording-rule basis too.

-- 
Bill


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