[mythtv-users] MythVideo woes

[Brad DerManouelian]

On Jan 19, 2007, at 9:58 AM, JCA wrote:

>    I seem to be unable to get MythVideo correctly configured in my box
> running MythTV 0.20. In myhtfrontend I select
>
>   Utilties/Setup -> Setup -> Media Settings -> Videos Settings ->
> General Settings
>
> and set the "Directory that holds videos" box to /Movies/MythTV. This
> directory contains a bunch of MPG and AVI files that I can play with
> no problems by hand when I invoke mplayer from the Linux command line.
>
>   However, if in mythfrontend I select
>
>   Media Library -> Watch Videos
>
> I only get a No files found icon. What am I missing? It's not a
> permissions issue on /Movies/MythTV; that much I am positive about.

You either need to use the Video Manager to scan for new videos or  
enable MythVideo's folder browsing if you want to just display all  
the videos in the folder.