[mythtv-users] Video configuration in 0.25

[marcus hall]

Well, I have upgraded to 0.25 with the new version of mythbuntu, and many
things are definately improved, but I'm trying to figure out what the
right way to set up the video directory is.

At the moment, I have a single machine acting as the backend and a couple
of frontends (it's multi-headed, so I have a mythtv-tv, mythtv-lcd, and
mythtv-vnc frontend setups).  I do have other frontends in the house, but
for now I just want to get mythtv-tv up and running so that I can watch
videos on the TV.

Initially, things were working "normally" except that whenever I would
enter the "Watch Video" action, the UI would show me "/" as the current
directory, and I would have to dig through "/var", "/lib", "/mythtv" and
"/videos" to get to the videos directory.  Under 0.24 it knew that this
was the base directory for videos, and it doesn't seem that I can get
out of that path with 0.25, but I still have to dig down through the upper
directories.

I saw a bug report about this and the bug was closed saying that the
proper way to configure it is to set up a "Videos" storage group that
points to the video directory.  So, I did this and after scanning for changes
I no longer see any videos.  I do see two entities, "ST" and "ScJjclb0 rar"
which don't seem to correspond to any files in the system at all (despite
the one file that looks like a .rar file somehow..)!

So, is there any documentation anywhere that describes how to use storage
groups for the video directory, or how to use "local" file directories
in 0.25?  The existing documentation seems to say that 0.25 changes things
but doesn't provide any info about what it is changed to...  I did see
mentions that some of the configuration information is now ignored, but
again nothing seems to definitively state what configuration is valid
in a post-0.25 world.

Thanks for any pointers!

Marcus Hall
marcus at tuells.org