<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Paulin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:paulin@spextreme.com">paulin@spextreme.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I'm hoping this is a simple answer.<br><br>When I put a file on the hard disk in the videos directory, when does the Video browser sync to the file system and display it in the browser? I've been going into the Setting->Video Manager to try and force it but it doesn't consistently do it. So I'm trying to figure our what really causes update the listing. And how would I force it to resync?<br>
<br></blockquote></div><br>As far as I know it will not automatically update the database with new videos that have been added to your videos folder (I assume this is what you mean by sync). If you check back a couple of days ago there is a thread discussing various ways of setting it to update automatically via cron. Manually you can go to Settings->Video Manager as you said and it should happen immediately. It syncs with the file system before it actually enters the video manager. Another manual method which I prefer is to use mythweb. When you are in the video section there is a button on the upper right that says "scan library" or something like similar. If you have added videos and they aren't showing up after you do a manual scan, then one possible problem is that you don't have the file type defined for that type of video. One time I had a video with a divx extension and it wouldn't get added. I finally realized I had to go into the mythtv settings and define a file type for that extension. Then it was added on the next scan.<br>