[mythtv-users] videos anf scal

[James Linder]

> On 21 Jan 2021, at 8:45 pm, James Linder <jam at tigger.ws> wrote:
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>> On 21 Jan 2021, at 4:59 pm, David Watkins <watkinshome at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> All meta data was gone
>> Files were still in wrong folder ie File located in Myth-A appeared in Myth-E (as above)
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>> Have you played with the various browse modes?
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>> From https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Video_Library
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>> To change Metadata Browse Modes, Press the "M" (MENU) and select "Browse By...". You can then select which metadata browse mode to switch to.
>> Currently available Metadata Browse Modes include:
>> 	• Folder (Default)
>> 	• Cast
>> 	• Genre
>> 	• Category
>> 	• Director
>> 	• Studio
>> 	• Year
>> 	• User Rating
>> 	• TV/Movies
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> It turned out to be my old friend duplicate hashes.
> I'm being very careful to not call the stupid-hashes "stupid_hashes" after all someone must have thought that they were a good idea.
> I suspect that the cut list editor contributes to the very high incidence (one a year) of clashes each of which has taken days to resolve (boy I'm a slow learner)
> Seeing the fault NOT go away in various views or browse modes started the bell ringing, so thanks for the suggestion

Just to show that info incase it is ov value to someone

[sandypit] /home/jam [1005]% hashDups /store/Movies/
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now doing names
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[number of files] 1374
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now doing hash on files
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now doing hash check
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[targ] /store/Movies/Myth-A/Galapagos 1x02.avi  ed8833a0a776356f
 [dup] /store/Movies/Myth-E/The Equalizer.avi

[sandypit] /home/jam [1012]% md5sum /store/Movies/Myth-A/Galapagos\ 1x02.avi
5b56c446d3ea088456caf91dac4e6789  /store/Movies/Myth-A/Galapagos 1x02.avi
[sandypit] /home/jam [1013]% md5sum /store/Movies/Myth-E/The\ Equalizer.avi
8710fe09975f9ee4fa3feb07d8228330  /store/Movies/Myth-E/The Equalizer.avi

I then slightly edited one file to change the hash
James