[mythtv] [mythtv-commits] Ticket #3117: Rewrite Mythweb's Mythvideo Module

Rob Smith kormoc at gmail.com
Fri Feb 23 17:19:51 UTC 2007


On 2/23/07, Tom Lichti <tom at redpepperracing.com> wrote:
> I think I may have found the problem, although I'm not sure where it's
> going wrong. The one I'm looking at in particular is 'A Bugs Life'. My
> setup is somewhat strange. The server that is running Apache is also a
> CIFS host for the mythvideo/music files, but is NOT a Myth backend, so
> it doesn't have local access to Myth recordings, but it DOES have local
> access to Myth videos. The videos are located in /usr/local/nfs/movies,
> which I have sym-linked to /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/mythweb/data/video
> and /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/mythweb/data/videos (don't know why there
> are two, mythweb insists on creating two). I have also sym-linked the
> movies directory to /myth/movies, which is consistent with my frontends.
> I updated the database yesterday to reflect that path (/myth/movies) for
> the apache server, as per our earlier email. I have created
> /myth/movies/posters, and sym-linked THAT to
> /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/mythweb/data/video_covers.

I only have data/video symlinked on mine. When I cleaned up the code,
I was rather sure I killed the duplicate symlink issue. Can you remote
data/videos and see if it's any happier?

The poster symlink should be fine. I'm using that now to store the
posters, so it should just work happy like.

> So, with that out of the way, when I hover over the link for A Bugs
> Life, I get this:
> http://apacheserver/mythweb/data/video//myth/movies/Kennedy/A%20Bugs%20Life.avi
>
> which is not a valid link, so it appears it is taking the base url and
> adding the database path to make the link. Is that correct behaviour? If
> so, I need to modify the database path to reflect that, which may be why
> the poster download is failing, if it's trying to copy to that path. I
> don't know why the database update of the metadata is failing though,
> since the db ID is correct.

Yeah, I'll dig into the video link later this weekend.

Well, let's walk though this
Can you give me the output of
 http://apacheserver/mythweb/video/imdb?action=lookup&id=999&title=A%20Bugs%20Life

with the id=999 being replaced by the real id? You should see
something akin to this:

Matches~:~ id: 999|0120623:A Bug's Life (1998)

If that's correct, go ahead and run it in the video interface, and in
the green box, hover over the link and make sure it's pointing to
this:
javascript:imdb_select('999','0120623')

If so, the output of this might be useful
 http://apacheserver/mythwebl/video/imdb?action=grab&id=999&number=0120623

it should show the output akin to:
Update~:~ 999

So yeah, let's start with those and see if there's any hints with
things going wrong.

~Rob


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