[mythtv-users] .23-fixes video storage groups question

[Raymond Wagner]

On 11/11/2010 21:57, Phil Bridges wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 9:50 PM, Raymond Wagner<raymond at wagnerrp.com>  wrote:
>> On 11/11/2010 21:44, Phil Bridges wrote:
>>> It recognized the update to the host field, because it played the
>>> files originally.  Then, it recognized that the files were on my slave
>>> - but it deleted the entries from the table - obviously, the files are
>>> still there.
>> Local files are stored with the absolute path and no hostname.  Even if you
>> set the hostname, it will still access the file locally since it has a full
>> path.  When you scanned, the file should have been marked as missing, but
>> then rediscovered as existing in the Videos storage group on the slave
>> backend.  If it did not find the file, it is because you have not set up
>> that storage group on your slave backend, so MythVideo did not know to scan
>> there.
>>
>>> How do I need to get my slave backend's videos to show up again?
>> Once files are found missing from a scan, they and all their attached
>> metadata is removed from the database.  If you add the proper folder to the
>> Videos storage group on your slave backend and rescan, they should show up,
>> but you will still have to pull new metadata for them.
>
> OK - I need to set up the *videos* storage group info using
> mythtv-setup on the slave backend?  I set up the "default" and
> "videos" storage groups on the master backend, following the
> instructions here: http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Storage_Groups

Yes.  SGs in MythVideo behave a bit differently.  Their definitions do 
not currently fall through to slave backends.