[mythtv-users] Video Scanning Problem

[Michael Watson]

On 29/01/2013 2:43 PM, Raymond Wagner wrote:
> On 1/28/2013 22:22, Michael Watson wrote:
>> On 29/01/2013 2:00 PM, Raymond Wagner wrote:
>>> On 1/28/2013 21:06, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>>>> Alternatively, just always scan from a frontend on the host you 
>>>> want to
>>>> "own" the videos.  (I /think/ that will work to keep them owned by 
>>>> that
>>>> host, but I'm not positive.)
>>>
>>> Shouldn't make any difference. The scanner runs through a list of
>>> backends, storing file paths to a map with no checking for an existing
>>> entry at that name. The list of backends is stored in order of
>>> connection to the master backend, starting with the master backend
>>> itself. It pretty much guarantees that in such a configuration, the
>>> master backend would never own anything, and files would just keep
>>> cycling back and forth among the slaves currently active at the time
>>> of the scan.
>>
>> Seems odd behavior.
>> Whats the purpose of the hostname value in storagegroups for?
>
> Ideally, all storage groups should be defined on the master backend. 
> The hostname allows you to configure overrides specific to one slave 
> backend.
>
>> Whats the purpose of the hostname value in videometadata for?
>
> Same as for recordings, it records the host one which that video can 
> be found, so frontends know what backend to stream it from if they 
> cannot find it in their own local filesystem.

OK, so my only real option is to work out why some files dont stream 
properly, and locate videos in a location where the frontends/sbe's cant 
find them locally.

Thanks for the input guys.