[mythtv-users] MythWeb video paths problem

Wed Apr 30 11:53:12 UTC 2008

Youri,

Thanks for your insight. Does mounting them in a different location  
fix the url parsing problem, or just the symlink creation problem?

Thanks,

Daniel
On 30-Apr-08, at 7:18 AM, Youri Matthys wrote:

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: MythTV <mythtv at cvs.mythtv.org>
> Date: Apr 30, 2008 1:16 PM
> Subject: Re: Ticket #3185: Mythweb mythvideo dir error
> To: mythtv-commits at mythtv.org
>
> #3185: Mythweb mythvideo dir error
> ----------------------- 
> +----------------------------------------------------
>   Reporter:  anonymous  |        Owner:  kormoc
>      Type:  defect     |       Status:  new
>   Priority:  trivial    |    Milestone:  unknown
> Component:  mythweb    |      Version:  head
>   Severity:  low        |   Resolution:
>   Mlocked:  0          |
> ----------------------- 
> +----------------------------------------------------
> 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
>
> --
> Ticket URL: <http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/3185#comment:8>
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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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