[mythtv-users] myth video file naming issues

Dan Armbrust daniel.armbrust.list at gmail.com
Tue Mar 22 15:59:50 UTC 2011


> MythVideo will parse the title, subtitle, season, and episode from a
> filename once, and only once.  Once it is in the database, there is no
> way to manually trigger a reprocessing.  Similarly, once it is in the
> database, it is ID'd with a hash value, so if the file is moved, the
> existing data is matched up and pointed at the new file.  The only way
> to start completely fresh is the way already mentioned.  Move your
> content out of a folder used by MythVideo, scan, move it back in, and
> rescan.


This works, by the way.  Still haven't had time to ponder whether I
want to fight with regular expressions, or just rename my files to
deal with the bracket issues.  One of these days...


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