[mythtv-users] New Frontend woes

[Alex Fazzari]

Ah that's good know, thanks for that Mike.  I suspect I've
misunderstood how the front and back end hang together.  Can you spot
if there's anything obviously wrong with these settings?

My backend storage directories are set up as follows:

Default --> /media/Goods/TV_mythtv_recording
LiveTV --> /media/Goods/TV_mythtv_recording

On my front end I have mounted its parent folder Goods at the same
point, /media/Goods on the frontend points to /media/Goods on the
backend.

On the frontend ls -al show the permissions for that
TV_mythtv_recording directory as follows:

drwxrwxrwx 1 minibob root    0 2009-08-24 08:12 TV_mythtv_recording

and on the backend:

drwxrwxrwx 1 root root   8192 2009-08-24 08:12 TV_mythtv_recording



On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 12:24 AM, Michael T.
Dean<mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
> <fixed top posting>
>
> On 08/23/2009 05:51 AM, Alex Fazzari wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 9:50 PM, Alex Fazzari wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I don't understand the backend error I am getting:
>>>
>>> Preview Error: Previewer file
>>> '/media/Goods/TV_mythtv_recording/2004_20090823214625.mpg' is not
>>> valid.
>>> 2009-08-23 21:46:27.994 Preview Error: Run() file not local:
>>> '/media/Goods/TV_mythtv_recording/2004_20090823214625.mpg'
>>> 2009-08-23 21:46:27.999 Preview Error: Preview process not ok.
>>>
>>> fileinfo(/media/Goods/TV_mythtv_recording/2004_20090823214625.mpg.png)
>>> exists: 0 readable: 0 size: 0
>>>
>>> I also don't understand why it appears that the frontend appears to be
>>> trying to play a different fle:
>>
>> Sorry copy /paste error, the error message from the front end is actually:
>>
>> 2009-08-23 21:46:23.814
>> RingBuf(/media/Goods/TV_mythtv_recording/2004_20090823214626.mpg)
>> Error: Waited 16 seconds for data, aborting.
>> 2009-08-23 21:46:23.815 NVP::OpenFile(): Error, couldn't read file:
>> /media/Goods/TV_mythtv_recording/2004_20090823214626.mpg
>>
>> i.e. the file name is 1 number higher than that reported from the backend.
>>
>
> That's not an error.  In 0.21-fixes, Myth tries to create preview images for
> the "dummy" video stream (which is used to set up the player until the real
> video starts) after it finishes "recording" (at which point it's deleted).
>  It causes these "errors" in the log, but they're innocuous.
>
> 2004_20090823214625.mpg is the dummy video.
> 2004_20090823214626.mpg is the actual recording.
>
> Your problem is elsewhere--likely permissions or Storage Groups
> misconfiguration.
>
> Mike
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