[mythtv-users] Lookup Metadata Jobs Hang

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Bill,

Wednesday, May 4, 2016, 6:32:52 PM, you wrote:

> 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.

This will only prevent them from running, not from queueing up. If you
do not want them, you will have to disable it in the rules and
templates.



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