[mythtv-users] MythWeb video paths problem

Youri Matthys yourimatthys at gmail.com
Wed Apr 30 12:05:09 UTC 2008


It fixes both problems. Only the video covers are not displayed in mythweb,
but you should create and link the data/video_covers directory anyway,
otherwise mythweb will keep nagging about the incorrect symlink.

Regards, Youri

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 1:53 PM, Daniel Buijs <dbuijs at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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>
> MythTV <http://www.mythtv.org/>
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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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