Two minutes after I posted, I figured out how to turn it off. The list now comes up in 3 seconds, but if I add any new videos, I have to do a manual scan before I can see them. That's what I wanted anyway.

noticed that MythVideo updates it's list of videos automatically!

Now by no means am I complaining, I researched long ago a way of doing so and shoved it in the too hard basket. I'm just curious as to how it works and how often it updates!

Whoever implemented this feature, I tip my hat in thanks!

Is there an option under mythvideo in setup that has a check box for 'show all files regardless of updates' or something like that? I'm not around my mythtv box now or I'd check for you. I have mine checked so that it never updates the db, rather it simply displays the contents of /myth/video which avoids that wait time for the update to take place. I'll try to remember to post the exact name of that option I'm thinking about later.