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

Andre mythtv-list at dinkum.org.uk
Tue Jan 25 14:27:27 UTC 2011


On 25 Jan 2011, at 13:59, Richard Shaw wrote:

> 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 ...

Also recommended to create a recordings directory in each drive and use that in mythtv rather than record directly to the mount point /var/lib/mythtv/group1/ for example would contain /recordings/

Andre

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