Preventing FillMythMetadata_pl from scrapping "Home Movies"

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leonade
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Preventing FillMythMetadata_pl from scrapping "Home Movies"

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Apologies if this has already been asked, I was unable to find any reference to it.

I store my personal Blue-Ray collection within the Myth Videos library and FillMythMetadata_pl works great.
My problem is that I also store family/home videos here as well and whenever rescanning my video library, FillMythMetadata_pl tries to scrap data for these family videos.
I know you can block FMMD_pl from scrapping metadata by using custom nfo files, (one per file) but is there a way to have FMMD_pl skip entire directories?
I would like it to work as intended but when reaching specific directories, just skip all the videos under that directory.

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Re: Preventing FillMythMetadata_pl from scrapping "Home Movies"

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One way would be to add your own *.mxml file for them but that is per file not per directory.
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Thanks for the idea paulh,
Unfortunately, with the number of home videos my wife and kids make, there are thousands of videos... (hence it slows down the metadata search.)
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One idea would be to not search for any metadata for directories with a special hidden file called something like say '.nometadata' or '.private' or '.homemovies'. Maybe someone can think of a better name ;)

Sounds like a fairly easy task but I'm getting a headache just thinking about looking at the old mythvideo code - some of it has got so many layers to it it's easy to get lost. :roll: :?
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