Re: [mythtv-users] Block Video Manager on Frontend?
On Saturday 12 February 2005 0:52, TJ wrote:
Well, just setup my frontend on OSX and what do you know? I
accidentally go into video manager and destroy my whole database b/c
it
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 forgot
etc.
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
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Re: [mythtv-users] Block Video Manager on Frontend?
Joseph A. Caputo schreef:
On Saturday 12 February 2005 0:52, TJ wrote:
Well, just setup my frontend on OSX and what do you know? I
accidentally go into video manager and destroy my whole database b/c
it
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 forgot
etc.
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
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.
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++
Steven
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