[mythtv-users] How do I scan for new videos?

[jedi]

On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 12:22:16AM +1000, duckeo wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 9:52 AM, Robert McNamara
> <robert.mcnamara at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Robert McNamara wrote:
> > ...
> >
> > Just as an aside, there's a known bug in trunk MythVideo right now
> > where you need to scan, leave mythvideo, wait five seconds for the
> > cache to die, then re-enter for your videos to show up.  I say that
> > because you definitely *don't* want to scan multiple times without
> > leaving and allowing the cache to die, you'll end up with multiples of
> > whatever gets added.
> >
> > Robert
> 
> I've encountered this very situation - any idea on how to clean up the
> video library after this happens? I've got a lot of copies of some
> things when I first found this not knowing how to work around the bug.

    Short of directly manipulating the data, probably not. you could find
the intid where the problem started and delete anything newer than that.
Then wait awhile and redo your scan.