[mythtv-users] Video Scanning Problem

Raymond Wagner raymond at wagnerrp.com
Tue Jan 29 05:38:54 UTC 2013


On 1/29/2013 00:28, Michael Watson wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>> As mentioned, slave backends can configure overrides for storage
>> groups. If a slave backend has anything defined locally (even
>> non-existent dummy paths), it will ignore the global paths and use the
>> local ones instead.
>
> Will this change the behavior when doing "Scan for New Videos"?
> The only Storage Groups I have, are all located on the MBE.

If you define any Video SG paths on the slave backend, you're telling it 
to look somewhere other than the master's paths for videos.

> Should VideoStartupDir have any value assigned?

No.


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