[mythtv-users] Storing recordings on a second hard drive Ubuntu

Wed Oct 12 04:25:48 UTC 2011

On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 4:45 PM, Mike's JdJ <stepsisters at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> I want to store my TV recordings on a second hard drive.
>
> Here's what I have done.
>
>
> Created the directory VideoRecordings on my second hard drive
> named BigDisc using Nautilus
>
>
> Modified owner and permissions of the VideoRecordings folder:
>
> napier at Colossus:~$ sudo chown mythtv /media/BigDisc/VideoRecordings
> napier at Colossus:~$
> napier at Colossus:~$ sudo chgrp mythtv /media/BigDisc/VideoRecordings
> napier at Colossus:~$
> napier at Colossus:~$ sudo chmod 777 /media/BigDisc/VideoRecordings
> napier at Colossus:~$
> napier at Colossus:~$ sudo ls -l /media/BigDisc/
> total 24
> drwx------ 2 root   root   16384 2011-10-04 23:27 lost+found
> drwxrwxrwx 3 napier napier  4096 2011-10-09 17:31 var
> drwxrwxrwx 2 mythtv mythtv  4096 2011-10-11 20:43 VideoRecordings
> napier at Colossus:~$
>
>
> Went into MythTV BackEnd Storage Groups and changed the Videos
> group to point to /media/BigDisc/VideoRecordings/
>
> I changed the LiveTV group to also point to my new drive when
> the above didn't work
>
> Recordings still go to the Default Group,
> /var/lib/mythtv/recordings/

Because you do not want the videos group or the livetv group, you want
the default group. Add it to the group, don't replace what was there
(unless you are moving all the recordings to the new group).

>
>
> Some of the reflectors and forums I've searched over the past
> two weeks say to also go to the Video Library and do a Scan For
> Changes.  I've gone through the FrontEnd and BackEnd screens,
> but I can't find it.
>
>
> Here is my configuration and logs:
>
> Ubuntu 11.04 64 bit desktop  Kernel Linux 2.6.38-11-generic
>
> MythTV  2:0.24.0+fixes 20110416.9ba3ece0 ubuntu1 (mythtv)
>
>
> BackEnd log:
>
> 2011-10-11 22:14:56.944 MainServer::ANN Monitor
> 2011-10-11 22:14:56.985 adding: Colossus as a client (events: 1)
> 2011-10-11 22:15:24.330 Reschedule requested for id 56.
> 2011-10-11 22:15:24.670 Scheduled 109 items in 0.3 = 0.08 match
> + 0.25 place
> 2011-10-11 22:15:24.963 TVRec(1): Changing from None to
> RecordingOnly
> 2011-10-11 22:15:25.042 TVRec(2): ASK_RECORDING 2 0 0 0
> 2011-10-11 22:15:25.072 TVRec(1): HW Tuner: 1->1
> 2011-10-11 22:15:25.504 AutoExpire: CalcParams(): Max required
> Free Space: 3.0 GB w/freq: 14 min
> 2011-10-11 22:15:25.572 Started recording: "The Big Bang
> Theory": channel 2501 on cardid 1, sourceid 2
> 2011-10-11 22:15:26.628 Reschedule requested for id -1.
> 2011-10-11 22:15:26.869 Updating status for "The Big Bang
> Theory" on cardid 1 (Tuning => Recording)
> 2011-10-11 22:15:26.925 Reschedule interrupted, will retry
> 2011-10-11 22:15:26.967 Reschedule requested for id 0.
> 2011-10-11 22:15:27.157 New DB connection, total: 4
> 2011-10-11 22:15:27.336 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at
> host: 127.0.0.1
> 2011-10-11 22:15:27.375 Scheduled 109 items in 0.4 = 0.04 match
> + 0.36 place
> 2011-10-11 22:15:27.404 TVRec(1): rec->GetPathname():
> '/var/lib/mythtv/recordings/2501_20111011221500.mpg'
> 2011-10-11 22:16:02.046 JobQueue: Commercial Detection Starting
> for "The Big Bang Theory" recorded from channel 2501 at
> 2011-10-11T22:15:00
> 2011-10-11 22:16:02.216 Using runtime prefix = /usr
> 2011-10-11 22:16:02.473 Using configuration directory =
> /home/mythtv/.mythtv
> 2011-10-11 22:16:02.582 Using localhost value of Colossus
> 2011-10-11 22:16:02.694 New DB connection, total: 1
> 2011-10-11 22:16:02.768 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at
> host: 127.0.0.1
> 2011-10-11 22:16:02.810 Closing DB connection named 'DBManager0'
> 2011-10-11 22:16:02.850 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at
> host: 127.0.0.1
> 2011-10-11 22:16:02.892 Current locale en_US
> 2011-10-11 22:16:02.933 Reading locale defaults from
> /usr/share/mythtv//locales/en_us.xml
> 2011-10-11 22:16:02.980 Loading en_us translation for module
> mythfrontend
> 2011-10-11 22:16:03.187 MythCoreContext: Connecting to backend
> server: 127.0.1.1:6543 (try 1 of 1)
> 2011-10-11 22:16:03.226 Using protocol version 63
> 2011-10-11 22:16:03.236 MythCoreContext: Connecting to backend
> server: 127.0.1.1:6543 (try 1 of 1)
> 2011-10-11 22:16:03.268 MainServer::ANN Playback
> 2011-10-11 22:16:03.310 adding: Colossus as a client (events: 0)
> 2011-10-11 22:16:03.310 Using protocol version 63
> 2011-10-11 22:16:03.352 MainServer::ANN Monitor
> 2011-10-11 22:16:03.435 adding: Colossus as a client (events: 1)
> 2011-10-11 22:16:03.394 MainServer::ANN Monitor
> 2011-10-11 22:16:03.527 adding: Colossus as a client (events: 0)
> 2011-10-11 22:16:03.682 [mpeg2video @
> 0x7fc86741d580]mpeg_decode_postinit() failure
> 2011-10-11 22:16:03.778 [mpeg2video @
> 0x7fc86741d580]mpeg_decode_postinit() failure
> 2011-10-11 22:16:03.820 [mpeg2video @
> 0x7fc86741d580]mpeg_decode_postinit() failure
> 2011-10-11 22:16:03.862 [mpeg2video @
> 0x7fc86741d580]mpeg_decode_postinit() failure
> 2011-10-11 22:16:03.904 [mpeg2video @
> 0x7fc86741d580]mpeg_decode_postinit() failure
> 2011-10-11 22:16:03.946 [mpeg2video @
> 0x7fc86741d580]mpeg_decode_postinit() failure
>
>
> FrontEnd Log:
>
>
> Starting mythfrontend.real..
> 2011-10-11 22:14:53.352 mythfrontend version: fixes/0.24
> [v0.24-243-g9ba3ece] www.mythtv.org
> 2011-10-11 22:14:53.352 Using runtime prefix = /usr
> 2011-10-11 22:14:53.352 Using configuration directory =
> /home/napier/.mythtv
> 2011-10-11 22:14:53.365 ThreadPool:HTTP: Initial 1, Max 25,
> Timeout 60000
> 2011-10-11 22:14:54.058 Using localhost value of Colossus
> 2011-10-11 22:14:54.062 New DB connection, total: 1
> 2011-10-11 22:14:54.065 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at
> host: 127.0.0.1
> 2011-10-11 22:14:54.069 Closing DB connection named 'DBManager0'
> 2011-10-11 22:14:54.070 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at
> host: 127.0.0.1
> 2011-10-11 22:14:54.072 Current locale en_US
> 2011-10-11 22:14:54.072 Reading locale defaults from
> /usr/share/mythtv//locales/en_us.xml
> 2011-10-11 22:14:54.277 ScreenSaverX11Private: Gnome screen
> saver support enabled
> 2011-10-11 22:14:54.279 DPMS is active.
> 2011-10-11 22:14:54.305 Desktop video mode: 1280x1024 60.020 Hz
> 2011-10-11 22:14:54.571 Enabled verbose msgs:  important general
> 2011-10-11 22:14:54.590 Loading en_us translation for module
> mythfrontend
> 2011-10-11 22:14:54.609 MythUIHelper, Warning: No theme dir:
> '/usr/share/mythtv/themes/Mythbuntu'
> 2011-10-11 22:14:54.630 Could not find theme: Mythbuntu -
> Switching to Terra
> 2011-10-11 22:14:54.681 LIRC, Error: Failed to connect to Unix
> socket '/dev/lircd'
>                        eno: No such file or directory (2)
> 2011-10-11 22:14:54.681 JoystickMenuThread: Joystick disabled -
> Failed to read /home/napier/.mythtv/joystickmenurc
> 2011-10-11 22:14:54.759 Using Frameless Window
> 2011-10-11 22:14:54.759 Using Full Screen Window
> 2011-10-11 22:14:54.773 Using the Qt painter
> 2011-10-11 22:14:55.366 Current MythTV Schema Version
> (DBSchemaVer): 1264
> 2011-10-11 22:14:56.188 ThemeInfo, Warning: Unable to open
> themeinfo.xml for
> /usr/share/mythtv/themes/BlackCurves-OSD/themeinfo.xml
> 2011-10-11 22:14:56.188 ThemeInfo, Error: The theme
> (/usr/share/mythtv/themes/BlackCurves-OSD) is missing a
> themeinfo.xml file.
> 2011-10-11 22:14:56.214 ThemeInfo, Warning: Unable to open
> themeinfo.xml for /usr/share/mythtv/themes/Gray-OSD/themeinfo.xml
> 2011-10-11 22:14:56.214 ThemeInfo, Error: The theme
> (/usr/share/mythtv/themes/Gray-OSD) is missing a themeinfo.xml file.
> 2011-10-11 22:14:56.419 Registering Internal as a media playback
> plugin.
> 2011-10-11 22:14:56.438 No plugins directory /usr/lib/mythtv/plugins
> 2011-10-11 22:14:56.443 MediaMonitorUnix::AddDevice() - empty
> device path.
> 2011-10-11 22:14:56.443 MediaMonitorUnix::AddDevice() - empty
> device path.
> 2011-10-11 22:14:56.444 MediaMonitorUnix::AddDevice() - empty
> device path.
> 2011-10-11 22:14:56.553 Found mainmenu.xml for theme 'Terra'
> 2011-10-11 22:14:56.729 MythCoreContext: Connecting to backend
> server: 127.0.1.1:6543 (try 1 of 1)
> 2011-10-11 22:14:56.763 Using protocol version 63
> 2011-10-11 22:31:19.171 Deleting UPnP client...
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