[mythtv-users] I'm slightly confused regarding how metadata is shown on frontends

mythtv at hambone.e4ward.com mythtv at hambone.e4ward.com
Sun Feb 17 15:05:11 UTC 2013


On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 1:35 AM, Another Sillyname <
anothersname at googlemail.com> wrote:

> I've setup a system for a friend using 25 fixes from the Ubuntu repos.
>
> The system has one backend that is both the TV feed and the video library.
>
> It also has three other frontends and will have a couple of tablets as
> well.
>
> On the backend there are three hard drives......
>
> 1 TB dedicated to TV Video Library
> 500GB dedicated to TV Video Library
> 500GB dedicated to Movie Video Library
>
> The 500GB TV drive is actually a 2TB but is partitioned so that the
> 500GB partition is dedicated.
>
> In mythtv-setup the Storage Directories are therefore configured.......
>
> /mnt/sdb1/TV
> /mnt/sdc1/TV2
> /mnt/sdd1/Movies
>
> I've populated the metadata (still need to sort out a few issues but 95%
> done)
>
> On the backends frontend I can view the metadata properly and have it
> configured so that I can see each directory...
>
> Movies
> TV
> TV2
>
> When I run the frontend -->  Media Library -->  Watch Videos I'm
> presented with the above subdirectories, I can then get a list of
> either Movies or TV shows and the metadata starts to appear (coverart,
> fanart) as I scroll up and down the directory tree.....
>
> Movies -->  A Knights Tale
>            -->  Airplane
>
> As the highlighted cursor moves across from 'Movies' to a 'A Knights
> Tale' the whole screen background changes to (I assume) fanart for
> that Movie and the coverart box gets filled in appropriately.
>
> If I then move down to 'Airplane' the images get correctly updated.
>
> If I move back to the Movies option and move down to TV the images
> again update correctly picking up from whichever TV show subdirectory
> I move across to.
>
> However on the remote frontends I cannot get the metadata to show
> unless I choose to NOT browse filesystem.
>
> i.e.
>
> If I have 'Browse Filesystem (slow)' in effect disabled on the system
> I see metadata, however all three directory structures are now
> presented as one merged long list rather then seperate Movies, TV and
> TV2 structures.
>
> If I have 'Browse Filesystem' enabled I get the directory tree
> structure I want as per the above on the backends frontend, however I
> now get no metadata showing on the remote frontend.
>
> I'm using Blue Abstract theme on all system frontends to remain consistent.
>
> I've tinkered around with this for a couple of hours now and either
> I'm missing something obvious or having 'Browse Filesystem' enabled on
> a remote frontend is stopping metadata being transferred.
>
> I'd really rather not set him up with one huge long list of TV shows
> and Movies to scroll through every time he wants to watch something,
> but frankly the whole point of the system is the metadata makes it so
> visually appealing.
>
> Ideas?
>

I know the devs frown on using the Browse Filesystem method and they are
planning on removing it.

I have my data structured like this /storage/videos/TV,
/storage/videos/Movies, etc.  They are all on a local drive on the
backend/frontend.  I have my storage group set up as /storage/videos

What I see on the frontend (also Blue Abstract) in the List View is /Moviesand
/TV.  I suggest you try to nest your data one directory at least one level
deeper (e.g. /mnt/sdb1/Video/TV, etc), set your storage groups accordingly (
/mnt/sdb1/Video, etc) , change to the regular viewing mode and see what
happens.

I believe you're seeing everything in the root directory because your
Videos are essentially in the root directory.

Wipe out your old library.  This is a must.  Either delete all your storage
groups and *Scan for Changes* from the frontend (the recommended way) or chmod
000 the /mnt/sdb1/Video, /mnt/sdc1/Video, etc directories, *Scan for Changes
* and chmod 755 the directory back to normal.   Then rescan and see if that
works. :)

You might have to wait a little while for all the metadata to repopulate,
of course, so grab a coffee.

I'm not sure if that's going to fix your problems on your other frontends
but it should straighten out your directory structure.

I hope that helps.  I've had my issues trying to get my Video Library
working.

Jerry
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