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

[Anthony Rooney]

Hi John

Thanks for the feedback and advice John, which is most appreciated.

Every version of Ubuntu I have seen since 8.04 has Applications, Places, &
System as the main root menu options right at the top left hand corner of
the screen.  I assume when you open up the places menu you fire up the
application Nautilus.

It appears that the problem was associated with permissions.

I fixed the permissions using the Nautilus GUI and when I looked at the
stats in mythweb I could see both locations and all the space.

12 hours later this afternoon is was back to the old setting so I went in
again the reset the permissions.

I have no idea why it changed and whether it will hold this time.

Perhaps the permissions had not flowed down the directory structure properly
so I can only wait and see if this is now resolved.


Kind Regards


Anthony


-----Original Message-----
From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of John Pilkington
Sent: Saturday, 29 January 2011 10:04 PM
To: mythtv-users at mythtv.org
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Help understand the interface of Myth Media &
Video Gallery

On 29/01/11 10:34, Anthony Rooney wrote:
> Hi
>
> When I enter /media/Store/Recordings the interface saves it as 
> /media/Store/Recordings/ with the added forward slash???
>
> When I try to exit Myth Backend I get the message the Path 
> /media/Store/Recordings/ does not exist do you want to go back and fix?
>
> Now how do I fix this path when it is perfectly valid?  It is exactly 
> as it is seen in PLACES.  I have no browse interface so All I can do 
> is enter a string but no one can tell me how to do this.
>
> I do not have a permission error as far as I know but perhaps that is 
> another problem waiting for me if I can ever enter a path entered into 
> the system that it can accept.
>

I'm afraid I have no idea what 'PLACES' is.  Is it a file browser?  Can you
examine 'properties' of this folder and read its permissions?  I can do this
in Fedora/KDE and, although this is usually frowned on, I can set the
permissions graphically if need be by becoming root.

Can you move one of your recordings into that folder using either mv or the
system file manager?  If you can, and storage groups are set up right, you
should be able to play it; that would be quicker than seeing if you could
record to it.

It looks as if you have been using mythtvsetup again.  Had you stopped
mythbackend and mythfrontend first, and did you exit appropriately from each
screen that you used, and not just quit?

When you entered the folder name did it have extra space(s) that don't show
above?

If you've been doing all this them I'm baffled - not at all unusual. 
But AFAIK most people do get it to work and raging about it won't help.

Good luck,

John P

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