<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><DIV>On 18-Sep-07, at 12:00 PM, Greg Estabrooks wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">The problem with this method is that if your frontend runs the<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">video manager everything will appear to be a completely different<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">file path and remove the existing database info and add the new paths,</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">which will cause the backend to fail to see the files.</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV>Just wanted to put in a small plug for a patch I submitted which addresses exactly this situation:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><A href="http://cvs.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/3742">http://cvs.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/3742</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>It allows you to prefix mythvideo's path with a per-frontend value to map it into that frontend's filesystem. Same deal for cover art.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>- George</DIV></BODY></HTML>