[mythtv-users] Help understand the interface of Myth Media & Video Gallery

[Anthony Rooney]

Hi Andre

I have read the wiki but found it hard to follow without a few example like
- scenario you want to accomplish - here is the syntax you need to add to
this field in the configuration settings.  Unfortunately most of the mythtv
documentation is written for people who already understand the system and
has not been proof read by anyone who is new to the interface.

I have a second partition which appears in the file system as
"/media/Store/Recordings"

How do I add this location to the default storage group?  What is the exact
text string I have to add as I have read the instructions and without an
example I simply cannot get it to work?  All it needs is one character wrong
to stop it working.
Perhaps someone on this list who can understand the instructions can advise
what test I need to enter to the relevant configuration section to have the
default group look at a 2nd location?


Many Thanks


Anthony

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Andre
Sent: Wednesday, 26 January 2011 12:57 AM
To: Discussion about MythTV
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Help understand the interface of Myth Media &
Video Gallery


On 25 Jan 2011, at 13:59, Richard Shaw wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 7:45 AM, Anthony Rooney <rooneyo at iinet.net.au>
wrote:
>> Hi Raymond
>> 
>> Thank you for your feedback, which is most appreciated.
>> 
>> How do you configure storage groups in Myth Video?  I have not found 
>> any instructions.
> 
> Try:
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Storage_Groups
> 
> It's somewhat of a long read but has instructions for both recording 
> and video storage groups.
> 
> 
> [SNIP]
>> I have had little luck with storage groups in MythTv having the 
>> default /var/mythtv/Recordings and tried to also point to another 
>> larger drive mounted in /media/Store/Recordings.
>> 
>> When I entered the additional location into the "default group"I got 
>> the error that it was not a valid location even though I can see it 
>> in my file system exactly as I entered it case sensitive and all.
> 
> I'm not a storage group expert and I'm using Fedora so my defaults are 
> a little different but I think the idea is to have a main "root"
> directory for recordings then you need to create a subdirectory for 
> each "storage group"/hard disk. i.e.:
> 
> /var/lib/mythtv/group1
> /var/lib/mythtv/group2
> ... etc ...

Also recommended to create a recordings directory in each drive and use that
in mythtv rather than record directly to the mount point
/var/lib/mythtv/group1/ for example would contain /recordings/

Andre

> 
> then you would assign each group to a storage group. Then MythTV 
> should balance the recording load between the two groups.
> 
> Richard
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