Mediascanner skips videos

[Thomas Strehl]

Adding/removing videos should rerun mediascanner and update the index. However, sometimes nothing happens meaning mediascanner doesn't do a rescan or some files get skipped for no reason (not even getting a cannot parse this file because of unsupported codec). Even stopping mediascanner, removing the cache dir and restarting doesn't show all the files.

[Pat McGowan (pat-mcgowan)]

These are the sample mp4 movies

The log shows:
mediascanner-service[4552]: INFO info/fs-walker: Scanning directory "/home/phablet/Videos"
mediascanner-service[4552]: DEBUG debug/fs-walker: Scanning "/home/phablet/Videos/Tears_of_Steel-Trailer.mp4"
__pthread_gettid -2

then no further output.

[Pat McGowan (pat-mcgowan)]

Added another video to the folder and log reports:

mediascanner-service[5268]: DEBUG debug/tasks: Cancelling task 1322 of file system scanner
mediascanner-service[5268]: DEBUG debug/tasks: Cancelling task 1323 of file system scanner
mediascanner-service[5268]: DEBUG debug/tasks: Cancelling task 1324 of file system scanner

It does not pick up the new video

[Pat McGowan (pat-mcgowan)]

This seems to have regressed. Systems with Videos already scanned can still see them, in the dash, but new videos do not appear.

[Michael Frey (mfrey)]

same for me same result

[PS Jenkins bot (ps-jenkins)]

Fix committed into lp:mediascanner at revision 391, scheduled for release in mediascanner, milestone Unknown

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package mediascanner - 0.3.93+13.10.20131011-0ubuntu1

---------------
mediascanner (0.3.93+13.10.20131011-0ubuntu1) saucy; urgency=low

  [ Michal Hruby ]
  * Increase discovery timeout, log why discovery failed. (LP: #1236878,
    #1234726)

  [ James Henstridge ]
  * If a limit on the number of results for a search is given, sort the
    results. (LP: #1234145)
  * Download album art to the media art cache during scanning rather
    than storing remote URLs in the index.
  * Depend on ca-certificates to fix test failure caused by libsoup
    warnings about missing /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt.

  [ Jussi Pakkanen ]
  * Download album art to the media art cache during scanning rather
    than storing remote URLs in the index.

  [ Ubuntu daily release ]
  * Automatic snapshot from revision 392
 -- Ubuntu daily release <email address hidden> Fri, 11 Oct 2013 09:20:33 +0000

[Michal Hruby (mhr3)]

Marking as Fix released, updates in the media stack should have fixed most of these issues and mediascanner logs warnings with relevant error code when it skips a video now.