[mythtv-users] recordings will not play as not root user

[Brandon Gracyalny]

The problem with the frontend not running as the mythtv user was that mythtv
did not have execute access to the video folder. When I tried going into the
video directory I was getting access denied until I set the execute flag. I
am not sure why this would be but it is working now.

I don't have the xbox working yet but it is probably just another permission
problem with SMB.

Thanks for the help

On 10/22/05, David W Davis <davidw.davis at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 10/22/05, ffrr <ffrr at tpg.com.au> wrote:
> > Brandon Gracyalny wrote:
> >
> > > I have a mythtv user setup. My recordings and live tv partition is
> > > /video. I can watch live tv as the mythtv user. When I try to play a
> > > recording using this user the frontend just goes back to the recording
> > > list and will not play. If I load the frontend as the root user the
> > > recording plays fine.
> > >
> > > I have also tried to do this through the xbmcscript on my xbox with
> > > the same results. The file shows up and the preview shows up but it
> > > will not play.
> > >
> > > The owner of the /video file is root. All other users have read and
> > > write permission on this directory. I have tried chowning the video
> > > directory as my mythtv user but as soon as a recording happens it goes
> > > back to being owned as root.
> > >
> >
> > Sounds like permissions on the playing software or system, rather than
> > the video file then. Does the log have anything useful to say when you
> > try (or even, run mythfrontend from a consol prompt and see if any
> > errors show up there)?
> >
> >
> >
> > > I have fedora core 4 and used the instructions on Jarod's site to
> > > install mythtv.
> > >
> >
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> Yea, I would check the permissions on /video/recordings.
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