[mythtv-users] Some Videos Not Seen by Scan

Mark Goldberg marklgoldberg at gmail.com
Wed Aug 9 13:25:37 UTC 2017


On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 5:55 AM, Dan Wilga wrote:
>
> On 8/8/17 4:41 PM, Mark Goldberg wrote:
>>
>> I have added some videos and do a rescan. Some videos are not seen or
added to the list. I can rename those videos and they are still not seen on
a rescan. I can put them in a different subdirectory and they are still not
seen.
>
> One other thing to look at: do you use "parental levels" for videos? If
so, the videos might have already been added, but are hidden because your
default parental level is lower than that of the missing videos.


On 08/09/17, John Pilkington wrote:
>On 08/08/17 22:35, John Pilkington wrote:
>> On 08/08/17 21:41, Mark Goldberg wrote:
>>> I have added some videos and do a rescan. Some videos are not seen or
>>> added to the list. I can rename those videos and they are still not
>>> seen on a rescan. I can put them in a different subdirectory and they
>>> are still not seen.
>>>
>>> This is on mythtv 0.28.1-3 from rpmfusion on Fedora 26.r
>>>
>>> Any suggestions how to troubleshoot this?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Mark
>>
>> Have you tried scanning an empty videos folder first? AIUI a video is
>> not added if its hash is already present.
>
>I'm not sure that fits what you say, though. The Video path can be set
>up either via Storage Groups in mythtvsetup or in the frontend via Setup
> Media Settings. A mismatch?

I have videos set up in mythsetup for years.  They are in one directory,
/archives/videos.
In a subdirectory, /archives/videos/hdv, I am creating h.264 / PCM files
with names like
MVI_6007_5994_18D.MOV
MVI_6007_5994_18E.MOV
MVI_6007_5994_18F.MOV
MVI_6007_5994_18G.MOV
with ffmpeg, trying different encoding parameters.

I do a rescan, and I can see the first two files but not the second two.
All are original files, not downloaded from anywhere and have no matching
metadata.

Mediainfo for the files seen and not seen is the same except for the
filename.

I can do a "touch junk.mov" in that subdirectory, and that is seen after a
scan, but it obviously complains when trying to play it as it is empty.

I hope this explains things better.

I am not sure how to scan an empty video folder. There is just one option,
rescan the whole directory.

I am not using parental levels.

Mark
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