[mythtv] MythVideo issues..

[Joseph A. Caputo]

On Monday 05 January 2004 12:27, Craig Meyer wrote:
> I have two questions that I have asked on the Users list and no one
> was able to help. I believe that they both might be bugs so I am
> wondering if anyone could help me.
>
> 1) When opening the Video list in MythVideo, the default (or
> starting) directory shown is the first subdirectory on my system
> which contains a file. This happens to be 3 levels deep. As a result,
> when going to watch videos I have to 'go back' two or three
> directories before I am actually seeing my list of categorized
> videos. Is this a bug that will be fixed, is it intended to be this
> way, or is there a setting that I can change?
>
> For more information on this you can look at the Users thread:
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/perl/mailarc/gforum.cgi?post=96690;se
>arch_string=Craig%20Meyer;guest=1958697&t=search_engine#96690
>
> 2) When I add cover art to MythVideo I can see the Images when using
> the Video Browser but not when using the video list. The odd thing
> is, this occurs on only one of my two MythTV boxes. Since the problem
> started I have recompiled with no change, I can only guess that the
> problem is somewhere in my database. Anyone have an idea how to fix
> this?

IIRC, the cover art is stored under your ${HOME}/.mythtv directory, so 
if you have multiple frontends they each need a copy of the cover art.  
I think this may have been addressed recently (I recall a thread about 
it), but maybe it was only fixed in one of the 2 mythvideo screens.

-JAC