[mythtv-users] Video configuration in 0.25

[Thomas Mashos]

On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 10:49 AM, marcus hall <marcus at tuells.org> wrote:
> Well, I have upgraded to 0.25 with the new version of mythbuntu, and many
> things are definately improved, but I'm trying to figure out what the
> right way to set up the video directory is.
>
> At the moment, I have a single machine acting as the backend and a couple
> of frontends (it's multi-headed, so I have a mythtv-tv, mythtv-lcd, and
> mythtv-vnc frontend setups).  I do have other frontends in the house, but
> for now I just want to get mythtv-tv up and running so that I can watch
> videos on the TV.
>
> Initially, things were working "normally" except that whenever I would
> enter the "Watch Video" action, the UI would show me "/" as the current
> directory, and I would have to dig through "/var", "/lib", "/mythtv" and
> "/videos" to get to the videos directory.  Under 0.24 it knew that this
> was the base directory for videos, and it doesn't seem that I can get
> out of that path with 0.25, but I still have to dig down through the upper
> directories.
>
> I saw a bug report about this and the bug was closed saying that the
> proper way to configure it is to set up a "Videos" storage group that
> points to the video directory.  So, I did this and after scanning for changes
> I no longer see any videos.  I do see two entities, "ST" and "ScJjclb0 rar"
> which don't seem to correspond to any files in the system at all (despite
> the one file that looks like a .rar file somehow..)!
>
> So, is there any documentation anywhere that describes how to use storage
> groups for the video directory, or how to use "local" file directories
> in 0.25?  The existing documentation seems to say that 0.25 changes things
> but doesn't provide any info about what it is changed to...  I did see
> mentions that some of the configuration information is now ignored, but
> again nothing seems to definitively state what configuration is valid
> in a post-0.25 world.
>
> Thanks for any pointers!
>
> Marcus Hall
> marcus at tuells.org
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1) Don't use local storage directories, use the storage group instead
2) Go into mythtv-setup, delete everything in the videos SG, then add
the directory your videos are in. If the directory you specify is in
your home directory you are going to have a bad time
3) Go into the frontend and tell it to scan for videos
4) ???
5) Profit!

Thanks,

Thomas Mashos