[mythtv-users] Media library only showing films

rob.mythtv at robertwillett.com rob.mythtv at robertwillett.com
Tue Jan 3 10:10:33 UTC 2006


Just discovered that if I run Mythtv as a different user the Media 
Library seems correct. The ~/.mythtv settings folder for root  doesn't 
seem to have anything it to restrict the media library so I'm puzzled.

Suggestions gratefully received.

Rob.

rob.mythtv at robertwillett.com wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've just setup a new Mythfrontend system on my desktop OpenSuse10 
> box. I already have a separate Mythbackend running perfectly well and 
> just wanted access to the system from another desktop.
>
> Since OpenSuse10 installed GCC 4.x on my system the standard Mythtv 
> download wouldn't compile.So I Googled and found a suggestion to use 
> the svn version. Mistkae #1. So I downloaded the latest svn version 
> and compiled that. The compile worked as expected.
>
> However I noted that it wanted Protocol 22 rather than Protocol 15. I 
> realised that the svn version is rather more advanced than I needed. 
> Unfortunately whilst looking around the system I do remember telling 
> the system to filter the Media library on films, which looked quite 
> interesting. Mistake #2.
>
> It was clear the the latest svn build was too advanced so I looked 
> around some more and discovered the 0.18.1-fixes branch of the Myth 
> code. This was the one I should have downloaded all along as it has 
> support for GCC 4.x in. So I deleted the more recent svn branch, 
> downloaded 0.18.1-fixes, compiled it and it worked fine. Until I went 
> back to the media library, all I can now see are films.
>
> Clearly somewhere there is a setting that filters the Media Library. I 
> would have thought it was in one of the datbase tables but I can't 
> easily see it. I've looked through as many tables as I can but I do 
> feel I'm searching for a needle in a haystack.
>
> Anybody any idea how to get rid of the filter on the Media Library?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rob.
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