[mythtv-users] "missing cover" mythweb problem

Mike Millner mike at mikeshome.com
Sat Jan 3 16:58:45 UTC 2009


On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 9:49 AM, <jarpublic at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the reply!
>
>>
>> I changed the owner to be the user that runs apache(www-data) and the
>> permissions on the video_covers dir to 777..probably to high but wanted to
>> be sure this isn't the problem.
>>
>> I changed the symlink to point to the original video_covers at the same
>> level as the videos dir.
>>
>> In the mythweb>settings>video>VideoArtworkDir: I have tried changing the
>> path   to /var/www/mythweb/data/video_covers instead of
>> /var/lib/mythtv/video_covers
>>
>
>
> That setting should point to the actual directory (ie
> /var/lib/mythtv/video_covers), at least that is how mine is set up.
>
>
>
>>
>> This is what is actually in the video_covers dir:
>>
>> mike at myth:/var/lib/mythtv/video_covers/The Pursuit Of Happyness$ ls -l
>> total 44
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 www-data www-data 41788 2009-01-02 07:56 happyness.jpg
>> mike at myth:/var/lib/mythtv/video_covers/The Pursuit Of Happyness$ cd ..
>> mike at myth:/var/lib/mythtv/video_covers$ ls -l
>> total 48
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 www-data www-data 41788 2009-01-03 08:09 happyness.jpg
>> drwxr-xr-x 2 www-data www-data  4096 2009-01-02 09:46 The Pursuit Of
>> Happyness
>>
>
> I don't have subdirectories in my video_covers folder. You can just put all
> of the images in the top folder. Also use 'chmod -R 777' on the covers
> directory to change the permissions recursively on the files and subfolders.
>
>
> The only other thing I can think of at this point is to make sure that the
> specific movie in mythweb knows where its thumbnail is. If you only have a
> few in there, it probably best to clear out that folder 1st and make a clean
> start. I usually add cover images straight from mythweb. If you have an
> image already, you can click on the edit button next to the movie in
> mythweb. Then at the bottom you can click browse next to the 'cover image'
> setting. This will upload the image you select and put it in the
> video_covers folder for you. Even better though is to use the imdb button
> next to video. Let if find you movie and it will download the cover image
> from imdb and put it in the folder for you. That is why mythweb needed write
> permissions on that folder. I generally just use the imdb cover images
> unless they are particularly bad, then I will find and download a better
> one. Then I use the edit button to upload the one I prefer. You can do some
> of this straight from the frontend in the video manager under settings. But
> it is generally easier to do with a mouse and keyboard from mythweb.
>
>  clearing it out and using the imdb link did it..so it was the permissions
>
> THANKS A LOT!!!!
>
> much appreciated!
>
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