Joseph A. Caputo schreef:
On Saturday 12 February 2005 0:52, TJ wrote:I was thinking about a system where mythvideo would create xml files with the same name/in the same folder as the video file to also store the metadata in.
Well, just setup my frontend on OSX and what do you know? I accidentally go into video manager and destroy my whole database b/cit
sets the place where the vid's are stored to my mac. So after a few hours of getting my backups, bypassing the mysql password I forgotetc.
I finally got it all back. But my question is: Is there any way to disable video manager on a frontend so as not to have this happen again? Thanks.
Just had the same thing happen to me, running on a remote frontend which temporarily lost its NFS mount the the mythvideo directory. At the very least, I think maybe the code should check for the special case where *no* videos are found, but the database contains videos, which is the usual case if the directory is not available.
In the mean time, you can easily disable the video manager on a per-frontend (or even per-user) basis. Just copy <install-prefix>/share/mythtv/util_menu.xml to ${HOME}/.mythtv/util_menu.xml, and edit the copied file to remove the entry for the Video Manager.
-JAC
Videomanager would scan all files in the videofolder and :
- if the file isn't in the database check for the xml file and if it exists put those fields in the database.
- if the file is in the database update/create the xml file
This would not only help when you accidently run the videomanager on an empty/unmounted folder but would also be usefull if you occasionally mount usb-disks or even dvd's/cd's with videofiles.
Also reordening you files in your tree would not mean you have to enter metadata again. (as long as we don't use the filename field from the xml file)
Don't think this would be difficult to implement (I can think of a bash script that does about this in 10 lines :-). If only I knew how to code C++ ....
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