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gravityhammer at gmail

Aug 8, 2012, 7:41 AM

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Wipe MythVideo metadata?

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.
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Aug 8, 2012, 8:15 AM

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Re: Wipe MythVideo metadata? [In reply to]

On 8 August 2012 15:41, Phil Bridges <gravityhammer [at] gmail> 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.
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You could do it this way......

from the command line on a machine with a working mythfrontend setup

mysql -umythtv -p -e"TRUNCATE TABLE mythconverg.videometadata"

This drops and recreates the table.
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raymond at wagnerrp

Aug 8, 2012, 8:26 AM

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Re: Wipe MythVideo metadata? [In reply to]

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.
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raymond at wagnerrp

Aug 8, 2012, 8:30 AM

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Re: Wipe MythVideo metadata? [In reply to]

On 8/8/2012 11:15, Another Sillyname wrote:
> On 8 August 2012 15:41, Phil Bridges <gravityhammer [at] gmail> 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.
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>
> You could do it this way......
>
> from the command line on a machine with a working mythfrontend setup
>
> mysql -umythtv -p -e"TRUNCATE TABLE mythconverg.videometadata"
>
> This drops and recreates the table.

No. That drops and recreates A SINGLE table, just one of many that are
now left with orphaned cruft.
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gravityhammer at gmail

Aug 8, 2012, 9:16 AM

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Re: Wipe MythVideo metadata? [In reply to]

On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Raymond Wagner <raymond [at] wagnerrp> 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).
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raymond at wagnerrp

Aug 8, 2012, 9:23 AM

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Re: Wipe MythVideo metadata? [In reply to]

On 8/8/2012 12:16, Phil Bridges wrote:
> 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).

Something funky with your VNC server? Keyboard and mouse work just fine
here using Xming. I don't have a real Linux machine currently handy to
test with.
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gravityhammer at gmail

Aug 8, 2012, 9:23 AM

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Re: Wipe MythVideo metadata? [In reply to]

On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 12:16 PM, Phil Bridges <gravityhammer [at] gmail> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Raymond Wagner <raymond [at] wagnerrp> 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?
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gravityhammer at gmail

Aug 8, 2012, 9:25 AM

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Re: Wipe MythVideo metadata? [In reply to]

On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 12:23 PM, Raymond Wagner <raymond [at] wagnerrp> wrote:
> On 8/8/2012 12:16, Phil Bridges wrote:
>>
>> 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).
>
>
> Something funky with your VNC server? Keyboard and mouse work just fine here
> using Xming. I don't have a real Linux machine currently handy to test with.
>

I wouldn't think so, but weirder things have happened. It's odd that
I can use the keyboard on the first screen, but not afterwards.
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gravityhammer at gmail

Aug 8, 2012, 9:27 AM

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Re: Wipe MythVideo metadata? [In reply to]

On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 12:23 PM, Phil Bridges <gravityhammer [at] gmail> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 12:16 PM, Phil Bridges <gravityhammer [at] gmail> wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Raymond Wagner <raymond [at] wagnerrp> 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.
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mtdean at thirdcontact

Aug 9, 2012, 9:36 AM

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Re: Wipe MythVideo metadata? [In reply to]

On 08/08/2012 12:25 PM, Phil Bridges wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 12:23 PM, Raymond Wagner<raymond [at] wagnerrp> wrote:
>> On 8/8/2012 12:16, Phil Bridges wrote:
>>> 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).
>>
>> Something funky with your VNC server? Keyboard and mouse work just fine here
>> using Xming. I don't have a real Linux machine currently handy to test with.
>>
> I wouldn't think so, but weirder things have happened. It's odd that
> I can use the keyboard on the first screen, but not afterwards.

Most likely you're using a broken-for-your-use-case (VNC) UI painter.
You should set UI Painter in Appearance settings to Auto, unless you
have a broken OpenGL driver/driver installation, in which case it should
be set to Qt. If you're using OpenGL painter, now, try using Qt with
VNC. If you're using Qt painter, now, try OpenGL. If you're using
Auto, check the logs to see which it's choosing when you use VNC and try
the other.

Mike
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