[mythtv-users] Wipe MythVideo metadata?

[Phil Bridges]

On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 12:23 PM, Phil Bridges <gravityhammer at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 12:16 PM, Phil Bridges <gravityhammer at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com> wrote:
>>> On 8/8/2012 10:41, Phil Bridges wrote:
>>>>
>>>> What's the preferred method to wipe all MythVideo metadata?  I have
>>>> many erroneous entries in there, and I'd just like to start from
>>>> scratch.
>>>
>>>
>>> Move your videos out of a directory defined in the 'Videos' storage group,
>>> or remove your videos directory from the 'Videos' storage group.  Scan for
>>> content.  Revert the setting.  Scan again.
>>>
>>
>> Here's what I did:
>>
>> 1) took out my existing directories in the "Videos" storage group
>> 2) added a "temp" directory to my "videos" storage group
>> 3) opened mythfrontend, and scanned for changes
>>
>> The result is that I still have all of the videos available, but now
>> most of them don't have coverart associated with them.  I can still
>> select the video to play.
>>
>> As a side note, I do myth-setup over VNC.  I noticed that now (all of
>> a sudden) when I drill down through menus, I can't use my keyboard to
>> select.  For instance, on the opening mythtv-setup screen, I can use
>> my cursor  keys to select "Storage Groups", and I use "Enter" to
>> select.  When I get to the Storage Groups page, though, I can no
>> longer use my keyboard.  My mouse works for selection, but I can't
>> directly type in the box to enter my storage group directory (I added
>> the directory through mysql).
>
> OK - even weirder.  I did all of the above from the frontend that
> resides on my backend server.  I just went to a remote frontend, and
> it lists no videos.  On the other hand, my backend's frontend still
> ists a lot of videos (but not all of them).  What gives?

It appears that the issue with this is my frontend that resides on the
master backend still had a directory in the "Directories that hold
videos" field.