[mythtv-users] Help understand the interface of Myth Media & Video Gallery

[Richard Shaw]

On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 7:45 AM, Anthony Rooney <rooneyo at iinet.net.au> wrote:
> Hi Raymond
>
> Thank you for your feedback, which is most appreciated.
>
> How do you configure storage groups in Myth Video?  I have not found any
> instructions.

Try:
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Storage_Groups

It's somewhat of a long read but has instructions for both recording
and video storage groups.


[SNIP]
> I have had little luck with storage groups in MythTv having the default
> /var/mythtv/Recordings and tried to also point to another larger drive
> mounted in /media/Store/Recordings.
>
> When I entered the additional location into the "default group"I got the
> error that it was not a valid location even though I can see it in my file
> system exactly as I entered it case sensitive and all.

I'm not a storage group expert and I'm using Fedora so my defaults are
a little different but I think the idea is to have a main "root"
directory for recordings then you need to create a subdirectory for
each "storage group"/hard disk. i.e.:

/var/lib/mythtv/group1
/var/lib/mythtv/group2
... etc ...

then you would assign each group to a storage group. Then MythTV
should balance the recording load between the two groups.

Richard