[mythtv-users] Difficulty with video storage group

[Simon Waldman]

> Date: Mon, 07 May 2012 07:27:08 -0400
> From: "Michael T. Dean" <mtdean at thirdcontact.com>

>> On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 8:44 AM, Simon Waldman wrote:
>>> Today I've been trying to watch a video (as opposed to a recording). I
>>> was told "There are no videos in the database. Would you like to scan
>>> your video directories now?"
>>> I said Yes, and got "A video scan found no files, have you configured
>>> a video storage group?".
>>>
>>> I checked the videos directory and it is there, it has content, and
>>> the permissions are OK - all unchanged from when it worked under 0.24.
>> The problem still remains that MythTV can't see the Video storage
>> group. Can anybody offer any suggestions on things to try, or further
>> info that I could provide?
>
> frontend and backend logs with -v file showing a scan.

Hi Mike, thanks for taking the time to help.

Frontend log:

2012-05-07 13:32:40.103059 I  Beginning Video Scan.
2012-05-07 13:32:40.103110 I  buildFileList directory =
myth://Videos@myth/var/lib/mythtv/videos/
2012-05-07 13:32:40.103646 I  MythVideo::ScanVideoDirectory Scanning
Group (myth://Videos@myth/var/lib/mythtv/videos/)
2012-05-07 13:32:40.106117 I  SG(Videos): GetFileInfoList: Reading
'/var/lib/mythtv/videos/'

I can't see anything relevant in the backend log, but in case it helps
here's the section around the same time, running from when I started
the frontend to when I killed the backend after collecting the logs:

2012-05-07 13:32:31.418309 I  MainServer::ANN Playback
2012-05-07 13:32:31.418323 I  adding: myth as a client (events: 0)
2012-05-07 13:32:31.418896 I  MainServer::ANN Monitor
2012-05-07 13:32:31.418908 I  adding: myth as a client (events: 1)
2012-05-07 13:32:36.717939 I  Maximal bitrate of busy encoders is 0 KB/min
2012-05-07 13:32:51.717204 I  Maximal bitrate of busy encoders is 0 KB/min
2012-05-07 13:33:01.678228 N  MythBackend exiting
2012-05-07 13:33:01.679177 I  Maximal bitrate of busy encoders is 0 KB/min
2012-05-07 13:33:01.727956 I  Waiting for threads to exit.

-- 
Simon Waldman
swaldman at firecloud.org.uk