[mythtv-users] Mythvideo not finding my files

[Nick Rout]

On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 7:03 PM, Travis Tabbal <travis at tabbal.net> wrote:
> I am running 0.21 from MythBuntu. I upgraded to the latest distro and all
> packages show as the latest versions.
>
> If I drop a couple directories of files into the video directory, MythVideo
> can't find the files inside those directories. If I copy one of the files
> out into the main video directory, it does find that one file. If I use
> mythvideo-bulk-updater to populate the database, then go into Video Manager,
> I get errors saying it can't find the files. I used "su" to log in as
> "mythtv" and I can see the files fine. I can manipulate them as well. The
> bulk updater also runs as "mythtv" and it can see all the files. I tried
> enabling all of the "browses files" options in the settings, but there was
> no change. "Newly scanned files are browsable by default" is also checked.
>
> Video Manager also says "Loading..." for as long as I've let it sit there.
> There doesn't seem to be any significant CPU activity while it's sitting
> there (top via SSH) so I don't know what it's thinking about.
>
> All files are AVIs and they are not set to ignore in the file type settings.
>
> Any ideas? I'd love to make use of MythVideo, but I can't seem to get it to
> play nicely. I really need to be able to use subdirectories to organize the
> files.
>
> I'm also not getting sound from MythVideo, though live TV and recordings
> play fine. I'm using optical audio and DD5.1 from ATSC sources works fine
> (passthrough). Videos have no sound though. I'm using ALSA.

suspecting permissions of the directories into which you dropped your
video files.