[mythtv-users] Mythexport's RSS feed pointing to wrong directory

John Baab john.baab at gmail.com
Wed Sep 8 18:38:27 UTC 2010


On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Matt Emmott <memmott at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've finally gotten Mythexport to work on my home BE. I can successfully
> transcode a recording to an Android-friendly format and it shows up in the
> web interface. However, there seems to be a problem with the virtual
> directory the RSS feed is serving up.
>
> If I go to the RSS Feed menu it shows my media file, but it links to
> http://magic/mythexport/video/WCVBDT-General_Hospital--20100827150000.mp4
> with a 404. The file actually lives one level deeper at
> http://magic/mythexport/video/mythexport/WCVBDT-General_Hospital--20100827150000.mp4
> (which I can get to via my browser). When browsing that folder it appears
> that /video is my /var/lib/mythtv directory. So, for some reason mythexport
> is adding a virtual directory as mythexport/video when it should be adding
> it as just the root of /mythexport, or the root of /mythexport/video should
> be pointing to /var/lib/mythtv/mythexport in the filesystem.
>
> Mythexport is set to store exported recordings at
> /var/lib/mythtv/mythexport. I tried changing this to /var/lib/mythtv/ for
> the heck of it to see if the virtual directory would change, but it did not.
> I've poked around the configuration files and the cgi files symlinked in
> /var/www and could not find anything obvious. For what it's worth, the two
> symlinks in /var/www are:
> mythexport -> /usr/share/mythtv/mythexport
> and
> mythweb -> /usr/share/mythtv/mythweb
>
> Any ideas? Thanks in advance.
>
>
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Symlinks are used in case the user wants to store the files in a
different directory.  This will allow you to use a dedicated drive for
media files and not need them in your root partition.  Just fix the
symlink by hand and make sure it points at whatever directory you are
using for your exported files and you should be good.


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