<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 1:35 AM, Another Sillyname <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:anothersname@googlemail.com" target="_blank">anothersname@googlemail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I've setup a system for a friend using 25 fixes from the Ubuntu repos.<br>
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The system has one backend that is both the TV feed and the video library.<br>
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It also has three other frontends and will have a couple of tablets as well.<br>
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On the backend there are three hard drives......<br>
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1 TB dedicated to TV Video Library<br>
500GB dedicated to TV Video Library<br>
500GB dedicated to Movie Video Library<br>
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The 500GB TV drive is actually a 2TB but is partitioned so that the<br>
500GB partition is dedicated.<br>
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In mythtv-setup the Storage Directories are therefore configured.......<br>
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/mnt/sdb1/TV<br>
/mnt/sdc1/TV2<br>
/mnt/sdd1/Movies<br>
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I've populated the metadata (still need to sort out a few issues but 95% done)<br>
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On the backends frontend I can view the metadata properly and have it<br>
configured so that I can see each directory...<br>
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Movies<br>
TV<br>
TV2<br>
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When I run the frontend --> Media Library --> Watch Videos I'm<br>
presented with the above subdirectories, I can then get a list of<br>
either Movies or TV shows and the metadata starts to appear (coverart,<br>
fanart) as I scroll up and down the directory tree.....<br>
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Movies --> A Knights Tale<br>
--> Airplane<br>
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As the highlighted cursor moves across from 'Movies' to a 'A Knights<br>
Tale' the whole screen background changes to (I assume) fanart for<br>
that Movie and the coverart box gets filled in appropriately.<br>
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If I then move down to 'Airplane' the images get correctly updated.<br>
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If I move back to the Movies option and move down to TV the images<br>
again update correctly picking up from whichever TV show subdirectory<br>
I move across to.<br>
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However on the remote frontends I cannot get the metadata to show<br>
unless I choose to NOT browse filesystem.<br>
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i.e.<br>
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If I have 'Browse Filesystem (slow)' in effect disabled on the system<br>
I see metadata, however all three directory structures are now<br>
presented as one merged long list rather then seperate Movies, TV and<br>
TV2 structures.<br>
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If I have 'Browse Filesystem' enabled I get the directory tree<br>
structure I want as per the above on the backends frontend, however I<br>
now get no metadata showing on the remote frontend.<br>
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I'm using Blue Abstract theme on all system frontends to remain consistent.<br>
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I've tinkered around with this for a couple of hours now and either<br>
I'm missing something obvious or having 'Browse Filesystem' enabled on<br>
a remote frontend is stopping metadata being transferred.<br>
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I'd really rather not set him up with one huge long list of TV shows<br>
and Movies to scroll through every time he wants to watch something,<br>
but frankly the whole point of the system is the metadata makes it so<br>
visually appealing.<br>
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Ideas?<br></blockquote></div><br>I know the devs frown on using the Browse Filesystem method and they are planning on removing it.<br><br>I have my data structured like this <span style="font-family:courier new,monospace">/storage/videos/TV</span>, <span style="font-family:courier new,monospace">/storage/videos/Movies</span>, etc. They are all on a local drive on the backend/frontend. I have my storage group set up as <span style="font-family:courier new,monospace">/storage/videos</span><br>
<br>What I see on the frontend (also Blue Abstract) in the List View is <span style="font-family:courier new,monospace">/Movies</span> and <span style="font-family:courier new,monospace">/TV</span>. I suggest you try to nest your data one directory at least one level deeper (e.g. <span style="font-family:courier new,monospace">/mnt/sdb1/Video/TV</span>, etc), set your storage groups accordingly (<span style="font-family:courier new,monospace">/mnt/sdb1/Video</span>, etc) , change to the regular viewing mode and see what happens.<br>
<br>I believe you're seeing everything in the root directory because your Videos are essentially in the root directory.<br><br>Wipe out your old library. This is a must. Either delete all your storage groups and <i>Scan for Changes</i> from the frontend (the recommended way) or <span style="font-family:courier new,monospace">chmod 000</span> the <span style="font-family:courier new,monospace">/mnt/sdb1/Video</span>, <span style="font-family:courier new,monospace">/mnt/sdc1/Video</span>, etc directories, <i>Scan for Changes</i> and <span style="font-family:courier new,monospace">chmod 755</span> the directory back to normal. Then rescan and see if that works. :)<br>
<br>You might have to wait a little while for all the metadata to repopulate, of course, so grab a coffee.<br><br>I'm not sure if that's going to fix your problems on your other frontends but it should straighten out your directory structure.<br>
<br>I hope that helps. I've had my issues trying to get my Video Library working.<br><br>Jerry<br>