[mythtv-users] Help with MythVideo

[Michael T. Dean]

On 07/25/06 18:48, Brad DerManouelian wrote:

> On Jul 25, 2006, at 3:31 PM, Timothy Bish wrote:
>
>> I posted this morning about not being able to see videos in folders  
>> that I mount into my /mythtv/videos folder.  I got home and look  
>> under settings->video manager hoping to find a way to scan for  
>> videos.  There doesn’t seem to be anything in there to do this.   The 
>> page open with a message about no videos being found and there  
>> doesn’t appear to be any controls in here to trigger a scan.
>>
>> I verified that I can see each of the directories under /mythtv/ 
>> videos, and I can play the files in Xine manually.  So I think the  
>> mounts are setup correctly.
>
> When you go to Utilities/Setup > Video Manager it does a scan for  
> videos in your video directory and populates with any new ones. Until  
> you go there, they won't show up in the Media Library>Watch Videos.


And if it doesn't find videos (as yours didn't), either the user running 
mythfrontend doesn't have permission to access the directories that 
contain your videos (most likely cause in your situation--using a 
network filesystem) or you've specified the wrong directory in setup.

Mike