[mythtv-users] .23-fixes video storage groups question

[Phil Bridges]

Thanks - I'll update these now.

Will this change to match the TV recordings in a future release?

On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 9:59 PM, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com> wrote:
> On 11/11/2010 21:57, Phil Bridges wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 9:50 PM, Raymond Wagner<raymond at wagnerrp.com>
>>  wrote:
>>>
>>> On 11/11/2010 21:44, Phil Bridges wrote:
>>>>
>>>> It recognized the update to the host field, because it played the
>>>> files originally.  Then, it recognized that the files were on my slave
>>>> - but it deleted the entries from the table - obviously, the files are
>>>> still there.
>>>
>>> Local files are stored with the absolute path and no hostname.  Even if
>>> you
>>> set the hostname, it will still access the file locally since it has a
>>> full
>>> path.  When you scanned, the file should have been marked as missing, but
>>> then rediscovered as existing in the Videos storage group on the slave
>>> backend.  If it did not find the file, it is because you have not set up
>>> that storage group on your slave backend, so MythVideo did not know to
>>> scan
>>> there.
>>>
>>>> How do I need to get my slave backend's videos to show up again?
>>>
>>> Once files are found missing from a scan, they and all their attached
>>> metadata is removed from the database.  If you add the proper folder to
>>> the
>>> Videos storage group on your slave backend and rescan, they should show
>>> up,
>>> but you will still have to pull new metadata for them.
>>
>> OK - I need to set up the *videos* storage group info using
>> mythtv-setup on the slave backend?  I set up the "default" and
>> "videos" storage groups on the master backend, following the
>> instructions here: http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Storage_Groups
>
> Yes.  SGs in MythVideo behave a bit differently.  Their definitions do not
> currently fall through to slave backends.
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