[mythtvnz] Sourcing DVB-S cards

[Nick Rout]

On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 22:47:06 +1200
Craig Box <craig@dubculture.co.nz> wrote:

> 
> > And if you miss recording Lost, be assured that almost everyone who has a bittorrent client has a version of the one you missed!
> And had it 6 months ago...
> 
> To stay roughly on topic, I found out the other day that MythVideo can
> be made to read directly from the file system, rather than you having to
> refresh the videos database every time you use it.  I can't believe I
> never found this before

perhaps because it ins new in 0.19 so hasn't been there to notice for that long.


> - it was just a tick box in the setup.  It is
> still suboptimal (it takes about 20 sec to scan my entire video
> directory when I load it; 

Mine takes much longer, but then again it is looking at roughly 400G of files, 300G of which is mounted over cifs to the bittorrent/storage machine.



>why can't it do each path as you go into it?),
> but it's better than having to go all the way out into the setup menu.

One thing to note is that the video portion of mythweb uses the database so if you want that working you have to update the database from time to time. I'd like to know the command line to update the mythweb database, and then I could cron it.

> 
> We found this while looking through the source for potential ways to
> make it work in a notified update nature. Hopefully I can convince the
> programming type flatmates to do more in this regard!
> 
> Craig
> 
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