[mythtv-users] mythvideo titles not matching videos

Mark Boyum mark at boyum.us
Sun Oct 30 04:30:43 UTC 2011


On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 4:40 PM, Michael T. Dean
<mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
> On 10/27/2011 04:37 PM, Mark Boyum wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 2:33 PM, Mark Lord wrote:
>>> On 11-10-27 12:36 AM, Marco Nelissen wrote:
>>>> Today I suddenly noticed that many of the titles displayed in mythvideo
>>>> don't match the files they refer to.
>>> I wonder if this is related to the bug where the "Delete" function
>>> in mythvideo very often deletes the WRONG file -- I've patched it out
>>> of the codebase here after losing too much good stuff to it.
>>>
>>> Works fine with a flat filesystem tree (everything in a single directory),
>>> but buggy as all get on with subdirectories.
>> That sounds like a nasty little bug.  Has the patch made it into .fixes?
>
> Well, that would presume that someone had reported the bug...
>
> (Not to mention actually verifying that it is a bug and not a
> misconfiguration/invalid data, then diagnosing the alleged bug--of
> course, at this point, the functionality would be fixed rather than
> patched out.)
>
> It's really hard to fix bugs that you don't know exist.
>
> Mike

My apologies, I should have been more clear that my question was
directed at Mark Lord as he indicated having a patch.

I'm not even sure that I can reproduce this issue.  If the time
presents itself I may try it on a test system.
-Mark


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