[mythtv-users] How to put MythVideo storage groups back in?

[Steven Adeff]

On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 11:26 AM, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com> wrote:
> On 5/23/2011 11:15, Neil Bird wrote:
>>     So a while back, as I still needed to use external apps. to play some
>> videos, I disabled the use of video storage groups.  I'd now like to
>> re-enable them, as I think Myth is successfully playing everything I can
>> throw at it, and I'd like to see if I can get MythWeb videos working
>> (“MythWeb now requires use of the Videos Storage Group”).
>
> MythWeb Videos is really broken.  Switching to storage groups will not
> fix it.  It simply needs to be rewritten to use the proper backend
> protocol calls.
>
>>     And the biggest question, I suppose:  will a rescan afterwards keep all
>> my metadata (presuming I get the directories correct)?
>
> Since 0.23, all content in MythVideo is hashed.  If you rename it, or
> change directories, or migrate from local folders to storage groups, it
> doesn't matter.  So long as that video exists somewhere in the paths
> defined for scanning, MythVideo will find it and update the location.

I recently did what your asking about and can verify Raymond's
comment. As far as I can tell, in the database the filename is stored
separately from the location of the file. I created storage group
locations for my videos then removed the location in the frontend
settings so that Myth was using the storage groups (or at least to
make sure?). upon restarting the frontend all my videos were visible,
playable, and contained all the metadata they did before.


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Steve
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