I am currently developing a small application to playout video content.
Now I am getting to a point where it will be very useful to know in my application whenever media content on the capsar server is updated. I think about a kind of message box or “warning” that new files are avaiable or content was deleted.
What I’m basically looking for is a possibilty to get an event or note whenever the media scanner updates its database.
Is there any possibilty to do that. Has anybody an approach to that?
I am currently using caspar server 2.3 with the media scanner.
i am afraid you have to “poll” CLS
or if you use the NRK media scanner you can “poll” http://ipcaspar:8000/stat/set/
which gives you a number that increases when the state off the mediafolder changes.
Both the official and nrk media-scanner use pouchdb internally, and that is exposed over http. So it should be possible to connect to that with any couchdb compatible client and subscribe to changes
Working with the media scanner I think I come over another issue.
Has anybody realised that the media scanner doesn’t delete media from its list that is removed?
For example, if you copy a clip in your media folder the scanner puts it on the CLS list and generates a thumbnail. But if you remove the copied clip from your folder the clip remains on the list as well as the thumbnail in the database.
Am I doing something wrong? Is there any other config I don’t know?
I’m currently running server 2.3. It seems the NRK (2.1) version works fine on this issue.
Thanks.
Ingo
By the way: Is there any possibilty to get the “quadsplit” thumbnails from the media scanner as they appear in the NRK version?