[mythtv-users] Some Videos Not Seen by Scan

Mike Perkins mikep at randomtraveller.org.uk
Wed Aug 9 14:16:28 UTC 2017


On 09/08/17 15:04, John Pilkington wrote:
> On 09/08/17 14:25, Mark Goldberg wrote:
>> 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
>
> Create an empty directory, define it as your video source in mythtvsetup-or-media-files, and scan
> it. Then go back to your original configuration and rescan.  I don't think this has changed
> recently, but
> Ticket #10500 was perhaps similar.  Or search 'mythtv video hash'
>
> Perhaps your ffmpeg processes gave identical results.
>
Clarify: "define it as your *only* video source".

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Mike Perkins



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