[mythtv-users] how doe this work

[James Linder]

> On 6 Oct 2018, at 4:55 pm, mythtv-users-request at mythtv.org wrote:
> 
>> A while ago I recorded and saved as a video ?Point Break? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_Break_(2015_film)
>> 
>> I recently recorded "Point Break?
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuVDrpl1tIY
>> 
>> and saved it a video with a minor premutation to the name.
>> 
>> I then linked, then coptied, one to PointBreakExtreme the other as PointBlankFBI
>> scanning will not find either of my linked or copied movies.
>> I?m reluctant to delete the originals in case I can?t recover them. Short of spelunking the database sql can anyone explain wots-happening
>> 
>> Thanks
>> James
>> 
> The videos part of MythTV identifies movies by a hash. This means if you 
> rename files and rescan it still keeps the same metadata for the movie. 
> If you have two copies of the same file in the directory, it identifies 
> them as the same, and I assume does not then show it twice.
> 
> I recommend you move them to another directory that is not in your 
> storage group, and scan videos. This will remove them from your library. 
> Then move back the ones you want into the videos storage group (only 1 
> copy of each file), than scan again.

Peter thank you
(ofcourse it worked)
James