[mythtv-users] metadata chaos

[Roland Ernst]

On Tue, Sep 1, 2020 at 6:34 AM jam <jam at tigger.ws> wrote:

>
>
> > On 1 Sep 2020, at 1:08 am, Roland Ernst <rcrernst at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Aug 30, 2020 at 10:51 AM Blue <jam at tigger.ws> wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > After a resent scan a whole number of Movies with metadata had the
> metadata, both description and coverart disapear.
> >
> > menu->i->Change Video Details->retrieve data winds for a while then says
> FAILED
> >
> > menu->i->Change Video Details->reset details
> > menu->i->Change Video Details->retrieve details does works
> >
> > Some Movies eg Blue Planet II imediately populate the movie
> >
> > others eg Bladerunner
> > reset detail
> > retrieve details
> >
> > Do retrive data and art
> > <selecting> does nothing except say something to the db. Art and
> description are blank
> > retrieve (again) fails
> > reset
> > retrieve fetches the details again
> >
> > others
> > <selection> does nothing
> > retrieve for another movie (may or maynot work
> > First movie is populated
> >
> > Can anybody cast light on what is happening?
> > Running the graber by hand does get data and art,
> >
> > Thanks
> > James
> >
> >
> > It is important to know that the movie grabber 'tmdb3.py'
> > limits each action to 30 seconds.
> > But MythTV internally limits a grabber session to 60 secs.
> > Additionally, the tmdb3 grabber uses an internal cache.
> > The cache is located at ' $HOME/.mythtv/cache/pytmdb3.cache'
> > or defined by the 'MYTHCONFDIR' environment.
> > That might explain your observation, that the second call
> > from the terminal succeeds, if the calls are done by the
> > same user on the same PC.
> >
> > Please try the following steps:
> > - delete the cache
> > - from mythfrontend, run a single update/fetch command
> >   that failed previously
> > - delete the cache again
> > - run the tmdb3 command logged by mythmetadatalookup
> >   from the terminal again (as the same user)
> > - post the output
> >
> > If that fails as well, try to increase the timeout for tmdb3
> > to 60 seconds. See
> > https://forum.mythtv.org/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=3630
> > how to change the timeout.
> >
> > On the other hand, it is of interest, if the second call
> > from the terminal returns *all* the content, or if it
> > returns the truncated content from the cache, only.
>
> Roland
> Thanks so, so much is explained, but oh so little documentation exists
>
> In fact, as per myth’s coding standatds, a 10 line explation would be so
> useful!
> if you run the grabber within the frontend nothing is logged and
> mythmetadata is not run.
> But your wise words will help troubleshoot. (run the frontend in a
> terminal to view the detail)
> James
>
>
I've pushed now a set of changes which should fix fetching metadata.
Please update to the latest fixes/31 and try on a selected video:

menu->i->Change Video Details->reset details
menu->i->Change Video Details->retrieve details

Roland
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