Re: [mythtv-users] Mythvideo first try

admin at mythppv.com admin at mythppv.com
Sat Mar 19 05:38:01 UTC 2005


It would be nice if mythvideo did do a scan every time you launched it,
but I haven't ever seen that happen.

What you have to do is go to Setup --> Video Manager

It will then scan once you hit video manager, and now you can go back
and watch your video's thorugh Media Library



jason bright <jaybright at gmail.com> wrote on 03/19/2005, 06:25:23 AM:
> This is probably going to sound really stupid, but i can't get
> mythvideo to work.  First time i've tried it.
> 
> My main mount point for storing video is /video.  I've made a sub
> directory /video/mythvideo and set the ownership and permissions
> properly. I've set that directory as the source directory in the
> mythvideo settings.
> 
> Dropped a few .avi's in there - nothing. I was under the impression
> that mythvideo would scan the directory on the fly and present the
> choices in the UI.
> 
> The mythvideo README doesn't really have any info. I'm obviously
> missing something really simple
> 
> thanks!  j
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