[mythtv-users] DecoderMAD - Error 5

Frans Hardijzer nsfrans at gmail.com
Mon Aug 18 22:28:31 UTC 2008


This might just be the problem. Unfortunately the boxes where setup by
some-one else and I'm not Linux aware enough to further investigate this
now. Could you suggest a good documentationsource about symlink etc?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org [mailto:mythtv-users-
> bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Brad DerManouelian
> Sent: maandag 18 augustus 2008 23:49
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] DecoderMAD - Error 5
> 
> On Aug 18, 2008, at 2:25 PM, Gabe Rubin wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 2:12 PM, Frans Hardijzer <nsfrans at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >> This frontend runs on the same box as the backend. On the other,
> >> networked,
> >> frontends I can listen to all the music I like, no problemo.
> >>
> >> Could someone give me a hunch where to start looking for the source
> >> of this
> >> problem?
> >>
> >>
> >
> > Can the frontend actually access this file?  I get this error when my
> > frontend tries to play a track that is in the database but no longer
> > exists.  Try running aplay and the file name, if that works then it
> is
> > some other issue.  If not, see why the frontend can't access the
> > directory or the file itself (permission issue, improper config
> > network wise, etc).
> 
> Also make sure the files are mounted in the same place on all
> frontends to reduce the amount of things that can go wrong. For
> instance, if your music files are in /var/lib/mythtv/music on your
> combo box and mounted to /mythtv/music on all your other frontends and
> the setting says to use /mythtv/music, that would explain why they can
> all access the files and your combo box's frontend cannot. A symlink
> would fix that problem.
> 
> -Brad
> 
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