[mythtv-users] mythutil --scanvideos ignores existing inetref

Bill Meek keemllib at gmail.com
Sat Feb 8 18:56:57 UTC 2020


On 2/8/20 8:03 AM, Rajil Saraswat wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I populate the Videos database using the Service Api (Video/AddVideo) and add the inetref using a python script. I would like to pull the 
> metadata using the script and thus run mythutil --scanvideos. Unfortunately, this command ignores the intetref and tries to identify the video 
> again.
> 
> Is it possible to pull the metadata using a script? I noticed that Video/LookupVideo does pull the metadata but it does not populate the mythtv 
> database. At the moment i have to manually press 'w' in the mythfrontend to pull the metadata and the covers.

Similar discussion on the forum. See if https://forum.mythtv.org/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=3592&p=17253#p17253
helps.

-- 
Bill


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