[mythtv-users] Keeping the MythVideo db up2date

[Joseph Fry]

On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 2:39 PM, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com> wrote:

> > From: Robert Dege
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2013 1:56 PM
> >
> > On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com>
> wrote:
> > > From: Robert Dege
> > > Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2013 12:39 PM
> > >
> > > > I was able to get it working with incrond, but doesn't recursively
> monitor
> > > > the folder.
> >>
> > > Could you elaborate on that a bit more?  The scan process in the
> backend
> > > should operate almost identically to that in the frontend.
> >
> > When I copy a file from my Windows7 box to the Videos folder on my
> mythbox, the
> > video will not appear in "Watch Videos" until after I run mythutil
> --scanvideos.  I am
> > trying to figure out a way that I can automate this process, unless you
> know of a
> > built-in function that will do this automatically?  I have gone through
> the setup on
> > both mythtv-setup and mythfrontend, but haven't found anything.
>
> Ok, so you actually mean "continuously", not "recursively".  Saying it
> doesn't operate recursively would mean it doesn't properly descend into the
> directory tree, and only updates content at the top level.
>

I think that's exactly what he meant... it monitors a folder, but not it's
subdirectories.  He needed a solution that continuously monitors a folder
recursively to detect changes in any of it's subdirectories.


>
> To be honest, I've never really seen a reason for such capability.  Either
> you're going to be adding videos manually, through ripping a DVD or Bluray,
> or copying content off some recording device, at which point you can just
> as
> well manually trigger a scan, or you've got some program automatically
> adding content, in which case that program can automatically trigger a scan
> at the same time.  The only scenario I can think where it would make sense
> to auto-update the content list is for users who aren't using the frontend
> at all, and are accessing it from a UPnP client that cannot trigger a scan.
>

I can think of a few circumstances where manual scans may be an issue.  For
example my wife stores home videos to our mythserver via SMB... then runs
the update from the frontend.  But if we used upnp instead of the frontend,
I may be looking for a similar solution.

It would be nice if the backend had an option to allow it to automatically
update whenever files in the videos storage groups changed.  It could
replace the, arguably pointless, browse filesystem mode.
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