[mythtv-users] World of pain migrating to "Storage Groups"
Kingsley Turner
krt at krt.com.au
Tue Jul 13 00:38:58 UTC 2010
On 13/07/10 08:46, Kingsley Turner wrote:
> On 12/07/10 11:52, Kevin Kuphal wrote:
>> There's a good explanation of Storage Groups in MythVideo in the wiki
>>
>> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Mythvideo#Storage_Groups
>>
>> The simple answer is, blank out the path in the frontend
>> configuration and MythVideo will only use the Storage Group folder
>> defined on the backend (and thus simplifying the frontend
>> configuration in the long run)
>>
>
> Ok, I did this ... and now I can see everything correctly in MythWeb,
> and in in the Myth Front end ... but I can't play anything in the
> front end! It lists fine, finding the files and directories, etc.
> But pressing [Play] just flashes black and comes back to the same
> screen (like when you have a broken video file). Nothing is written
> to the
> mythfrontend.log ???
>
> it's a bit confusing. I do have mplayer configured as an external
> player, and before making the change you suggested, static video
> played fine.
>
Ah ... I needed to RTFM - "External Players DO NOT WORK with Storage
Groups."
So this is fixed, mostly.
Half my videos are still not showing up in MythWeb, I checked the
permissions, they seem identical to ones that do... Shrug. I'll do
some more debugging after work.
thanks,
-kt
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