[mythtv] [PATCH]Shouldn't MythVideo store filenames relative to VideoStartupDir?

[Neale Swinnerton]

J. Donavan Stanley wrote:
> Neale Swinnerton wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've been having a problem with MythVideo and the way it stores 
>> filenames in the Database.
>>
>> I have 1 machine that acts as a nfs server and another frontend that 
>> mounts the Video directory from that nfs server. On the nfs server I 
>> occasionally run a frontend that accesses the disk 'direct' (and via a 
>> different path)
> 
> 
> And there's your problem.  Mount your shares in the same location and 
> you're fine.

That's certainly an option, but why support different frontend values of 
VideoStartupDir if it has to be set the same on all frontends?

> 
>> The existing code seems to have some support for multiple 
>> VideoStartupDirs, separated by ':', I've removed this, since it would 
>> then mean each frontend would need to search for the appropriate 
>> VideoStartupDir, which seemed odd to me. 
> 
> 
> So, you remove a feature that was just added in order to avoid mounting 
> your drives consistently?

:-) I think the ability to have multiple video dirs is probably a good 
idea, I don't need it at the moment tho.



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