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

[John Pilkington]

On 27/01/11 10:30, Anthony Rooney wrote:
> Hi Richard
>
> Thanks for your feedback.
>
> Unfortunately I read the wiki you referenced and perhaps I am a nob but I
> think it has a lot of detail but is very difficult to understand and
> interpret.  I think it is very poorly written.
> For example it says "A Storage Group is simply a mapping between a
> user-friendly name ("Default", "Movies", "Archive," ...) and a list of
> directory paths" however it say little about the exact syntax you need to
> use to include a location.  Myth is very syntax sensitive however the
> documentation is lacking in exact syntax examples.  They should provide a
> simple browse to folder interface but they do not want it to be user
> friendly.  I do not want specific storage groups for specific recordings
> just to add another location to my default group and do you think the wiki
> would give you just 1 example of the syntax I need to enter?
>
> I have a second partition which appears in the file system as
> "/media/Store/Recordings"
>
> How do I add this location to the default storage group?  What is the exact
> text string I have to add as I have read the instructions and without an
> example I simply cannot get it to work?
>
> Many Thanks
>
>
> Anthony
>

In mythtvsetup > Storage Groups > Default > Add New Directory > type in 
directory location > ok

HTH

John P