[mythtv-users] Mythfilldatabase recently stopped working

[Brian Phillips]

Brian Phillips wrote:
> Michael T. Dean wrote:
>> On 04/03/2013 08:16 PM, Brian Phillips wrote:

>>>    It has changed the message at the bottom of Mythweb status
>>> screen, but it no longer mentions anything about "Next scheduled
>>> grab time..." or whatever the message used to actually say.  I
>>> checked mythtv-setup and the option to refresh the data at the time
>>> suggested by the listings provider (SD) is still checked.
>>> 
>>> Should I go back to 0.25-fixes to get my videos playing again?  It
>>> seems like the Mythvideo problem may be a frontend issue with
>>> 0.26-fixes and the backend is still having issues with
>>> mythfilldatabase. 
>>> 
>>> Some relevant log data from mythbackend:
>>> Apr  3 17:59:36 zbox mythlogserver: mythfrontend[3546]: I
>>> CoreContext DVD/dvdringbuffer.cpp:338 (OpenFile) DVDRB: Opened DVD
>>> device at myth://Videos@192.168.0.101:6543/Kids Movies/TOY_STORY.ISO
>> 
>> MythTV doesn't (and never has) played encrypted ISOs via Storage
>> Groups.  If you have encrypted ISOs, you need to have them "locally"
>> accessible (i.e. via NFS or similar) in the exact same location on
>> your frontend and backend systems and then 0.26+ will use the local
>> copy, and if you install the system libraries that decrypt DVDs,
>> MythTV will never know they're encrypted/will be able to play the
>> decrypted data it's given.
> 
> These ISOs are definitely not encrypted.  They played fine on
> 0.25-fixes via Storage Groups.
> 
> Not all of my ISOs error out, though.  Just several of them on 0.26. 
> Again, all worked fine under 0.25-fixes.
> 

It looks like mythfilldatabase is working fine again!  Thanks for the help.

Now, it would be nice to know why the backend can't play some of my ISOs
that 0.25/fixes used to play without (major) issue...