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RM #783 verified that inotify support was working in VideoFE. It was, but it is incomplete. It doesn't check if the notification is for a directory being created or deleted.

1. A top level GList that adds smb mount points to scan.
2. A thread to do background scanning of a specified mount point.
   1. Discovered data is placed in a temporary GList and appened to the main list with a single mutex-wrapped function.
      1. The main list should then be sorted by title (non-kiosk) or filename (kiosk).
   2. After a mount point is scanned, it should update the display unless it's playing a video, in which case the update can come after.
3. By Mode changes
   1. For Player mode: scan mount points for videolib files only - shouldn't need to scan for directories first.
   2. For Kiosk modes: scan for files of supported types only (the find command is too broad)
4. For inotify
   1. Identifying a directory added or deleted.
      1. A function for deleting entries from a deleted mount point.
   2. Identifying a file added or deleted.

Kiosks are now updated to scan for supported suffices and make use of a hash to identify the files. This is used to restart a video from the last position played, if possible. Kiosks don't scan the SMB directory so the background scanning is not necessary.

The non-Kiosk systems still need work done on the scanning and might need to add the hash support.

How non-kiosks should work.

1. getUSBDirs() - like current getDirs() but just for USB and only searches for videolib files.
   1. Identifies both Movie and TV videolib files.
2. getSMBDirs() - only gets a list of SMB mounts to scan later.
3. dbLoad
   1. getSMBDirs
   2. getUSBDirs
   3. Load lists from USB dirs
      1. for movieDir,episodeDir master lists
         1. Clear list
         2. foreach usbDir
            1. getDirs(usbDir) - append to appropriate master list
   4. rest of dbLoad is the same
   5. schedule SMB scans for later
4. scanSMB
   1. for movieDir,episodeDir master lists
      1. foreach smbDir
         1. Clear tmp list
         2. getDirs(smbDir) - append to tmp list
      2. Run the tmp lists and read in the json files in each directory (readDB() - to movieTmpList, episodeTmpList)
      3. Run through each list of video types and generate the required data (genVideo() - from/to movieTmpList, episodeTmpList)
      4. Append tmp lists to master lists
      5. Sort master lists

To search for "videolib" directories under "movies" or "tv", use a find command like this:

find . -path "*movies*/*" -name "videolib"

or

find . -path "*tv*/*" -name "videolib"

The updateDisplay() function can be used to dynamically update the display but only for the GTK List, which calls updatePoster(). That will need to be redesigned. do_drawing() only gets called on expose events per drawing widget. When I switch to pigtk-icontable (see RM #1149) I can have it update the display based on a new list.

All the updates for scanning USB only are done. It needs to be tested to make sure scans work as before.
Need to implement the SMB scanning, but not actually schedule it.