[mythtv-users] 0.25 ttvdb not working while tmdb is working? Wiki out of date.

[Michael T. Dean]

On 06/25/2012 01:56 PM, Another Sillyname wrote:
> On 25 June 2012 14:49, Kenneth Emerson wrote:
>>> I had at look at that setting and it there and intact, the script is
>>> where it should be as well but there's nothing in the frontend log
>>> that indicates it's getting used.
>>>
>>> Does anyone know the actual 'trip' mechanism for which grabber script
>>> get's pulled?
>>>
>>> My understanding is that if the title is formatted with the
>>> Title.S01E01.Subtitle.filetype format then the ttvdb.py script should
>>> be getting called?  However my log is full of the tmdb script getting
>>> called for files in that format (and then subsequently not found
>>> obviously).
>>>
>>> As this was an upgrade from a 0.23 database (and the database itself
>>> probably goes back nearly 10 years) I wonder if it's worth clearing
>>> all the contents and doing a totally new and fresh rescan?
>>>
>>> Ideas anyone?
>>
>> Not sure if this will help but I have been seeing this behavior in videos
>> since the beginning of this year (see my post
>> at http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/501337?nohighlight=1#501337).
>>   I continue to have this problem on all new TV series videos I place in the
>> videos SG.  To get the metadata to load, I have to first reset the metadata
>> (Info / Edit Metadata / Reset Metadata) and then ask for a new metadata
>> lookup (w on the keyboard).  This has always worked and I'm still at a loss
>> to understand how the scan when you first enter videos is different
>> (ignoring the sxxexx in the title) basically expecting to find everything
>> with tmdb.
> Thanks Kenneth
>
> Having now read lots on this I've come to the conclusion the easiest
> thing to do is flush my videos database and do a rescan to rebuild it.

Agreed.

> I've looked at the sql tables and it looks like I need to flush....
>
> mythconverg.videometadatacast
> mythconverg.videometadata
>
> Are there any other tables I should flush at the same time?
>
> Thanks in advance.

Point your Videos SG to an empty directory (and make sure your local 
videos directory setting is empty), scan for changes, then point the 
Videos SG back to the proper dir.  That will properly clean up everything.

Mike