[mythtv-users] MythVideo Storage Groups on Trunk

[Robert McNamara]

On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 1:44 PM, Andrew
Barbaccia<andrew.barbaccia at gmail.com> wrote:
> Has anyone tried using the Storage Groups on trunk? From the commits the
> capability is there but I am unsure how to set them up.
>

Yes, they work.  You (and likely many/all others) will likely want to
read the following very carefully:

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/MythVideo_.22_Transition_Guide

and probably

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/MythVideo_File_Parsing

> I have defined the Storage groups correctly in the backend, but when I go to
> Media Library -> Videos nothing is listed. Also, I am running the backend
> with -v network to see all Myth protocol requests and none are sent.
>

I'm guessing you are expecting defining the SG's to point at existing
material to be enough-- it's not.  You need to point your "local"
setting away from the same dir and rescan.  Yes, this will mean
getting metadata anew.

> I am running current trunk in this environment with both the frontend and
> backend on the same machine. This is for testing purposes to get any patches
> / bugs submitted before 0.22 since I think this is a great development (no
> more NFS / Samba shares!)
>

Bear in mind that it is *far* from complete.  I'm working to get it as
close as possible to feature complete by the release, but there will
be a number of things missing from the SG functionality that exist in
the local functionality.  I've outlined them in the articles above.

Robert