[mythtv-users] Video art not being automatically downloaded in 0.27?

[Larry T]

On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 3:08 PM, Larry T <larryt at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 1:52 PM, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com>wrote:
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>> On Dec 16, 2013, at 8:50, Larry T <larryt at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 10:32 AM, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com>wrote:
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>>> On 12/16/2013 6:56 AM, Larry T wrote:
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>>>> I am experiencing the same problem.
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>>>> I spent yesterday looking into this after rebuilding one of my
>>>> computers. It appears that the images are actually being downloaded and
>>>> stored. However, the videometadata database table does not appear to be
>>>> getting updated with the file names. If you do a manual metadata lookup on
>>>> one with existing images (images downloaded prior to this problem), it will
>>>> actually remove the file names from the table. I may look into this more
>>>> but that is the extent of my investigation so far.
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>>> Standard whipping boy for any anomalous Video Library behavior, are you
>>> using "file browse" mode?
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>> I am using List view in Mythbuntu theme across all frontends. Am I
>> answering the right question? Thanks for your help.
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>> The "browse by" options control what the data is, the views control how
>> the data is presented, and the mode controls where the data comes from.
>>  Normally, data comes from the videos and associated metadata stored in the
>> database.  When you enable "file browse" mode, you bypass the database and
>> tell the Video Library to operate off the file system directly.  Most
>> strange behavior in the Video Library can be traced back to trying to
>> manipulate the database when in this database-independent mode.
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> I went through the options again. It appears I am in list view of gallery
> mode. I have an option to switch to "browse filesystem" which I assume is
> the "file browse" mode you referenced.
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To follow up, it looks like somewhere along the way, the functionality for
metadata images and videos combined with storage groups was changed because
the behavior used to work for me.

I have a MBE and SBE each with a locally mounted video directory registered
as a storage group. I also had a full set of image directories (coverart,
fanart, etc.) on both servers as storage groups. At some point, both were
properly downloading and displaying images with the images residing in the
respective server's image directories depending on where the video was
located. Current behavior is that the storage group on the MBE is working
as expected with image metadata while the SBE is not. I have worked around
this with an NFS mount of the SBE video directory on the MBE and removing
all the storage groups from the SBE.

Raymond, should I be able to have multiple video directories as storage
groups spanning multiple servers?
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