[mythtv-users] MythWeb video paths problem

[Brad DerManouelian]

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.

It's a bug: http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/4212
I'm not sure how you use MythVideo, so I don't know how to tell you to 
work around it. I usually just use the Gallery view so it doesn't matter 
how my videos are structured in the file system, so setting /mnt/DVD as 
the video directory would work for me.