[mythtv-users] Issues with Videos and Appearance

[~Stack~]

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~Stack~ wrote:
> I still have that screwed up hierarchy though. Now when I go to play a
> file I get: "Failed to open file in /media/myth/videos/Movies/"
> 
> Of course it failed. The Movies directory is "/media/drive1/Movies/". I
> checked (Backend Setup)>Storage Directories>Videos. It points to the
> correct location. So I checked (Frontend)>Utilities/Setup>Setup>Media
> Settings>Video Settings>General Settings>'Directory that holds videos'
> and that is blank.
> 
> Does anyone know where it might be pulling back this odd path from?
> 
> I am digging around trying to find that out right now.


Well I dug around, and I couldn't find this information anywhere in
MythTV. So I ran the mythtv mysql backup script, copied it over to /tmp/
and grep'd it for the path. These phrases /only/ appeared in the table
"videometadata". So I did a search and replace inserting the proper
location and dumped it back in...the kludge worked! :-D

So I thought 'Well maybe something is screwy with the video scanner.' I
went back into "Watch videos" pressed m and selected "Scan for changes".
It did its thing, and everything appears to still work. Hurray! Don't
know why it didn't update earlier when I was messing with it...

So now everything looks good. Well except my images and data for the
files are still missing...but Meh. Whatever. I will clean that up later.

For now, everything appears to be working again and I am happy! At least
until I tinker around with it again and break it, but that is all part
of the fun and learning experience, right? ;-D



Thanks a lot for all the help. I really do appreciate it.

~Stack~

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