Is it time to get rid of the Video & Photos scanner?

[mherger]

>> (oh, and I'd have to replace the top left logo in the web UI - don't ask
>> me to do that!)
>
> idle curiosity, would that be difficult?

I don't have the necessary fonts to start with. And I'm not an image
editor... but first of all it's the kind of work which is a waste of
time in most cases. Who cares, really? The web UI would require a major
overhaul, not a new logo top left :-).

[mherger]

Is it time to get rid of the Video & Photos scanner?

I was wondering whether the "Media Scanner" in LMS still makes sense (besides the music, of course). The "M" in LMS stands for Media, not Music. But is this really being used? There are much more powerful options out there to stream videos and photos to your TV. Why should LMS still bother?

[markiii]

i've never used it. Plex is a much better way of dealing with video

[Apesbrain]

Wow, didn't realize those options were still there. Thought they went away with the "Revue".

I use LMS only for music at which it excels.

[slartibartfast]

Did anyone ever use them?

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[agburnsky]

Only use it for music. Does removing the video scanner help make LMS a more lean mean machine or does it just free up resources to focus on core mission of music? The hours I have spent looking for a logitech Touch replacement knowing it's days were numbered. Now we have all these wonderful pi - LMS based solutions. Thank you mherger for the support.

[sodface]

I messed around with the Andy Grundman UPnP/DLNA Media Interface plugin awhile back:

https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?112196-LMS-Video-Folder-Artwork-with-UPnP-DLNA-Media-Interface-Plugin

For playing DVD rips to my Roku, which I assume would no longer work without video scanning? I wouldn't be heart broken since I don't think I've actually watched a full movie using it but it worked kinda nice in my testing and meant I didn't need to install and configure another piece of software on my server.

[gstalnaker]

Is it time to get rid of the Video& Photos scanner?

I vote NO - concentrate resources on music, which is where LMS really
excels.

Guy Stalnaker

On 2/22/22 17:08, mherger wrote:
> I was wondering whether the "Media Scanner" in LMS still makes sense
> (besides the music, of course). The "M" in LMS stands for Media, not
> Music. But is this really being used? There are much more powerful
> options out there to stream videos and photos to your TV. Why should LMS
> still bother?
>
>
>
> Michael
>
> "It doesn't work - what shall I do?" - "Please check your server.log
> and/or scanner.log file!"
> (LMS: Settings/Information)
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[w3wilkes]

My vote was Remove. Thought about "I don't care" but then thought otherwise.

[mherger]

Is it time to get rid of the Video& Photos scanner?

> Only use it for music. Does removing the video scanner help make LMS a
> more lean mean machine or does it just free up resources to focus on
> core mission of music?

Removing that feature won't have much of an impact on most
installations. It's already pretty much inactive unless you use the UPnP
plugin and enable media scanning for some folder.

But it would save me some hassle trying to build the necessary module
with all its dependencies for new platforms.

[d6jg]

> Only use it for music. Does removing the video scanner help make LMS a
> more lean mean machine or does it just free up resources to focus on
> core mission of music?

Removing that feature won't have much of an impact on most
installations. It's already pretty much inactive unless you use the UPnP
plugin and enable media scanning for some folder.

But it would save me some hassle trying to build the necessary module
with all its dependencies for new platforms.

I'd say remove it but put a peg in the ground for the "last" release that includes it for those that do use it.

[kidstypike]

I've never used it.

Roll it up and throw it away.

[philchillbill]

Also never used it and never will...

[mherger]

Is it time to get rid of the Video& Photos scanner?

> I'd say remove it but put a peg in the ground for the "last" release
> that includes it for those that do use it.

I'm not going to tag a nightly. If I remove it from 8.3, then that peg
will be the last 8.2.x.

[ralphy]

Another vote for removing it. I never use it.