[mythtv-users] Mythvideo not finding my files

[Nick Rout]

On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 2:58 AM, Travis Tabbal <travis at tabbal.net> wrote:
>> suspecting permissions of the directories into which you dropped your
>> video files.
>
>
> Turns out that was the case, though not how I expected it. The Mythbuntu
> install was using my user rather than "mythtv" as the auto-login user.

That is the way mythbuntu works. It leads to at least one screw up
that I am aware of. Much preferred knoppmyth that ran frontend as user
mythtv.

> I
> need to fix that. For now, I just did a chmod -R 775 on the whole tree and
> it started working. Not super secure, but it's a video player on an internal
> network with no outside access. It's probably "good enough". I do want to
> switch the auto-login user though, everything else is set up around that
> user. Great job to the dev team, the video player works quite well.
>
> I also got sound working. I found some articles in the wiki that talked
> about digital sound configuration and the tips got the job done. Even DVD
> images with AC3 work and my receiver uses the surround track properly.
>
> I did notice a possible bug, the interface to add file types doesn't seem to
> save new types. I hit "add", enter the extension, and hit "done". When I
> come back, the extension is nowhere to be found.

works for me, I have added a few new ones and they work fine.

> I was adding a setting for
> "mp4" files, but it works anyway with the default player. I was just
> thinking about trying the internal player.
>