[mythtv-users] Video Scanning Problem

[Raymond Wagner]

On 1/28/2013 17:03, Michael Watson wrote:
> I had assumed (wrongly) that the hostname field in videometadata would
> simply provide a hint to which storage groups to look in for a
> particular file, as my video storage groups are all have the hostname of
> the MBE, the hostname entries in videometadata table would reflect the
> hostname of the storage group where they are located, not the hostname
> of the device that last scanned for videos.   (from memory, this
> hostname switching also happens when a scan is performed from a frontend
> only machine)

If a slave backend does not have any paths defined for the Videos 
storage group, it attempts to use those defined for the master backend.