Metadata for movies

[rnadeau]

I need to know which file holds the metadata for the movies. I have the bmt plugin installed. I don't know if this makes a difference. I need to purge the file and rebuild it.
Thanks

[stuckless]

Originally Posted by rnadeau

I need to know which file holds the metadata for the movies. I have the bmt plugin installed. I don't know if this makes a difference. I need to purge the file and rebuild it.
Thanks

The information is stored in SageTV's database, so it can't be easily removed. The best way to completely wipe the metadata for a single file, is to remove the file, then refresh sagetv media, and then add the file.

Or, from the BMT Web UI, you can manually update and edit the metadata.

[rnadeau]

How do I delete the sagetv database because I have over 500 movies and it would be very tedeous and take forever to do individually.

[stuckless]

Originally Posted by rnadeau

How do I delete the sagetv database because I have over 500 movies and it would be very tedeous and take forever to do individually.

I guess, before we go down that path... what is it that you are trying to do?

Do you want to re-fetch metadata/fanart for 500 movies... or do you simply want to get rid of all information about all those movies, and not bother fetching metadata?

[rnadeau]

I installed mymovies and it messed up the running time on all my movies. I uninstalled mymovies and rescanned but all my movies show running times of days, minutes . I am trying to get it to show correct lenght of movie

[stuckless]

Originally Posted by rnadeau

I installed mymovies and it messed up the running time on all my movies. I uninstalled mymovies and rescanned but all my movies show running times of days, minutes . I am trying to get it to show correct lenght of movie

I'm not sure how mymovies works, but if it creates .properties, then you'll need/want to remove .properties in your media directory, or else, when sagetv reloads the movies, then it will load the data from the .properties. Likewise bmt will skip files that have an existing .properties.

By far the easiest was to remove all metadata is to simply remove the video source from the sagetv video sources. Then tell sagetv to refresh, and then add the video source back, and then tell sagetv to refresh.

If you have bmt installed, and automatically fetch metadata is enabled, then it will chug through the files fetching metadata/fanart in the background.

[rnadeau]

Thanks, This is what I needed to know. Mymovies created xml files. Do I need to remove all the xml files from 500+ folders or will doing what you just mentioned fix my problem?. As I mentioned previously I have removed mymovies. The strange thing though is that I have the Diamond plugin installed and when I use the wall view it shows the right running time, but when I use the sage dvd folders view is when I see the days and minutes. Is there possibly a problem with the diamond plugin?

[stuckless]

Originally Posted by rnadeau

Thanks, This is what I needed to know. Mymovies created xml files. Do I need to remove all the xml files from 500+ folders or will doing what you just mentioned fix my problem?. As I mentioned previously I have removed mymovies. The strange thing though is that I have the Diamond plugin installed and when I use the wall view it shows the right running time, but when I use the sage dvd folders view is when I see the days and minutes. Is there possibly a problem with the diamond plugin?

If you see the correct information in the native sagetv ui, but you see different data in the diamond theme, then I'd contact that group about what could be wrong.

[rnadeau]

I tried what you suggested and it shows the correct data in the diamond theme but still shows the days, minutes in the sage listing, so I will contact the diamond theme group about his issue. Thanks for your help.