[mythtv-users] Scan ... again

[John Pilkington]

On 25/11/18 08:10, Jan Ceuleers wrote:
> On 25/11/2018 04:08, James Linder wrote:
>> When I look at the video libary in mythtv all is as expected except there is only ONE video shown (at top level) for
>>
>> WhatsThis.avi
>> The			# a left over fumble from copying no doubt from “names with spaces”
>> 1009_20170812134500_7280.ts

That looks like a name created by my mythTScut script, which I think you 
tried once...   My h264-capable device died some time ago, but the 
script was just-about-working for me.

John

>>
>> Two videos must be duplicated in my hierachy
>> One video is named “Anna Karina …”
>> I just went back to check the name and it is now named 1009_20170812134500_7280.ts
> 
> 
> This is about the video library, so has nothing to do with mythfilldatabase.
> 
> Each file should exist in only one place in your video storage groups.
> Even creating symlinks in order to create multiple ways of reaching the
> same file is not supported (e.g. an alphabetic directory tree overlaid
> with symlinked trees grouping your assets by actor, director, year, ...).
> 
> If you do end up in such a situation, whether through symlinks or
> multiple physical copies of the same file (possibly with different
> names), find all copies, delete all but one of them, move the
> remaining-one out of the way (i.e. outside of your video storage
> groups), scan in mythvideo so that it notices that the files have gone,
> move the file back into the storage group, scan again.
> 
> I recommend that you do this on a file-by-file basis, because there is a
> long-standing bug in mythvideo whereby if it finds multiple new files
> during a scan and if there are multiple tvdb or moviedb hits it will
> throw up the user prompts as it receives the tvdb/moviedb replies
> without waiting for the user to actually select the correct entry. So
> the purpose of my recommendation is that you ensure that mythvideo finds
> only one new file during each scan, so that there can also only be one
> prompt for you to select the correct set of metadata.
> 
> (Oh and it's "Anna Karenina").
> 
> HTH, Jan
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