[mythtv-users] MythWeb video paths problem

[Youri Matthys]

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From: MythTV <mythtv at cvs.mythtv.org>
Date: Apr 30, 2008 1:16 PM
Subject: Re: Ticket #3185: Mythweb mythvideo dir error
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#3185: Mythweb mythvideo dir error
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  Reporter:  anonymous  |        Owner:  kormoc
     Type:  defect     |       Status:  new
  Priority:  trivial    |    Milestone:  unknown
Component:  mythweb    |      Version:  head
  Severity:  low        |   Resolution:
  Mlocked:  0          |
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Changes (by yourimatthys at xxx):

  * status:  closed => new
  * resolution:  worksforme =>


Comment:

  Dear,

  I'm experiencing the same error. The symlinks are wrongly created and as a
  workaround i had to remove them and recreate them as directory's so i
  could mount them with "mount -o bind". With this dirty hack, the video
  directory is fine and video's can be played on both the localhost and the
  remote hosts. Video covers are still unavailable though.

  Before using this dirty hack i've verified all permissions/ownership on
  both the directory's and the symlinks. Both were fine imho.

  gentoo linux / Mythweb 0.21_p16809

  Regards, Youri

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On 4/30/08, Youri Matthys <yourimatthys at xxx> wrote:
>
> Daniel,
>
> I used a dirty hack to resolve this problem. First i removed the symlinks
> "data/video" and "data/video_covers". Afterwards i've created them as
> directory's and mounted them with "mount -o bind".
>
> Keep in mind that this is only a workaround and that we should actually
> report this as a bug to the developers!
>
> Regards, Youri
>
>
> On 4/28/08, Daniel Buijs <dbuijs at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >  Hello Everyone,
> > I recently redid my Myth box using Jared's Guide (
> > www.wilsonet.com/mythtv/howto), with slight modifications for Fedora
> > Core 8, and MythTV 0.21 (current release, not SVN). There were a few hiccups
> > but everything seems more or less ok now, with the exception of Mythweb's
> > video module.
> >
> > I had the same problem described below and in several other posts. I
> > have multiple video directories. Here's how I got around it:
> >
> > Mythweb creates non-functional symlinks in /var/www/html/mythweb/data.
> > Remove these.
> >
> > I created a new symlink to only one of my video directories, and changed
> > the owner and group to mythtv:apache.
> >
> > Then I ran into problems with the Video Covers directory. I had to
> > change the default Video Covers directory to something different, with
> > ownership mythtv:apache (as above), and then create a symlink to it, as
> > above.
> >
> > If you don't create these symlinks, the program will keep creating
> > broken ones.
> >
> > Now I can launch the video module from Mythweb and browse to ALL my
> > video directories.
> >
> > I still have a problem with downloading/viewing the videos. The urls ae
> > referenced improperly. For example, if the video is located at
> > /storage/videos/myvideo.avi, the link will be to
> > /mythweb/data/video//storage/videos/myvideo.avi
> >
> > The problem is in one of the php files, but I'm not enough of a coder to
> > find it. Does anyone have any ideas on how to fix this (besides waiting for
> > 0.22)
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Dan Buijs
> >
> >
> > On 28-Mar-08, at 5:42 PM, John Burns wrote:
> >
> > I'm new to myth and mythweb and very novice when it comes to Linux but I
> > 've run into a problem that I think is bigger that just my shortcomings.
> > In my video settings, I've set the path for my ISO files
> > (VideoStartupDir in the settings table) to 3 different directories,
> > separated by : like the instructions say. This works great in MythTV but
> > MythWeb chokes because of Symlinks. I'm assuming MythWeb is built to do
> > a single Symlink to the root for the videos or something like that but
> > it doesn't seem to be able to handle the multiple paths like the myth
> > frontend can. I have my DVD ISOs on a few different servers and I have
> > mappings mounted into a single folder /mnt/DVD/mapping1, /mnt/DVD/mapping2,
> > /mnt/DVD/mapping3. I'm afraid if I change my video folder to just look
> > at /mnt/DVD that I'll have to go in and reconfigure all my movies and
> > files. Any advice here or perhaps something I'm overlooking? Is this a "
> > bug" or just unsupported? Thanks for your help.
> >
> > John Burns
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