<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Apr 18, 2006, at 8:45 PM, J. Scott wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">At the risk of pissing some folks off, I wanted to post this question again, as I didn't get any response. Specifically, I was wondering if I didn't provide enough information, or if simply no one has any thoughts on why this is happening.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">Thanks again and sorry for the double post.</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir="ltr" style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">I'm having a strange problem with mythVideo. I recently moved all of my ripped movies to a NFS shared drive on another Linux box. Every time I go into video manager to scan for new movies, the progress bar gets to 50%, then it gives me a message that movie XYZ is missing and would I like to remove it from the database. It asks me this for all 300+ movies in the directory, so I click "yes to all". After this, all of my movies show up properly in the Video Manager and in MythVideo.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">The really strange thing happens next. When I go into MythVideo, I'm able to select and play any movie just fine. I can exit out of one movie and start another one just fine. After a few minutes (hours?), however, the movies get lost. When I select a movie in MythVideo, it tries to play it, but then just returns to the movie description page, acting as if it can't find the file.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">I can go back into the Video Manager, scan for new movies, select 'yes to all' to purge the missing files, and then I'm able to play movies again, at least for the next few minutes (hours?)</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">I'm not sure whether the problem is in the Myth database or if it is somehow in my NFS share. I've tried clearing out the MythVideo database by selecting an empty directory in the Video Setup, and then scanning for new movies, but the problem returns after I re-set the movie directory to the actual location of my movies.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">Neither of the Linux boxes are ever turned off or put to sleep, so I don't think the network connection is being dropped.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">I'm running MythTV 0.18, AMD Athlon 2400+, 256mb RAM 10/100 wired Ethernet, Fedora Core 4, set up with Jarrod's guide.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">Thanks for the thoughts.</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>I think you have to start narrowing down the possibilities. Can you get a terminal screen up on the frontend, and when you are in the "failed" condition try and get an "ls" listing of the directory containing the videos? And/or just "df" or "mount" and see if the directory is there. That should tell you if you have an NFS problem or something strange with Myth.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>If you see the directory is there, then try and read and write a file from/to it.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I'll bet it is an NFS problem, but you need to prove it before going further.</DIV></BODY></HTML>