[mythtv-users] Scan does not work

[James Linder]

> On 17 Jan 2017, at 8:18 am, mythtv-users-request at mythtv.org wrote:
> 
>> I?m using the (suse) distro rpm, which says very little: mythbackend version:  [v0.28] www.mythtv.org
>> 
>> I have scanned my videos in the past. I renamed some to show season and episode. I rescaned with
>> mythutils ?scanvideos on the backend machine.
>> On various frontends the videos have kept the old name.
>> I dump the database and can see the new names, so scan did do *something*.
>> 
>> Poking around
>> 
>> select title,filename from videometadata;
>> +---------------------------------------+---------------------------------------+
>> | title                                 | filename                              |
>> +---------------------------------------+---------------------------------------+
>> | DMCatsNSharks1                        | DMCatsNSharks5_7.avi                  |
>> | DMCtlAltDel15                         | DMCtlAltDel157_5.avi                  |
>> | DMDoctorIsOut16                       | DMDoctorIsOut7_8.avi                  |
>> | DMEducation14                         | DMEducation7_4.avi                    |
>> | etc etc
>> +---------------------------------------+???????????????????+
>> 
>> So the TITLE is the original name
>> and FILENAME is the current name
>> 
>> what is going on?
>> Can the scan be dropped and scan done again?
>> 
>> Thanks
>> James
> 
> IIRC a video scan will not update unless the file's hash value changes.
> 
> Scan an empty directory, then rescan the real one.  But I don't know if 
> your renames will survive.

Yup that makes sense of the above - thanks

I tried a test case, I can fiddle the title then play or delete, that seems simpler than scan with bells (empty directory, then files again etc)

James