[mythtv-users] Video Scanning Problem

Michael Watson michael at thewatsonfamily.id.au
Tue Jan 29 03:22:50 UTC 2013


On 29/01/2013 2:00 PM, Raymond Wagner wrote:
> On 1/28/2013 21:06, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>> Alternatively, just always scan from a frontend on the host you want to
>> "own" the videos.  (I /think/ that will work to keep them owned by that
>> host, but I'm not positive.)
>
> Shouldn't make any difference. The scanner runs through a list of 
> backends, storing file paths to a map with no checking for an existing 
> entry at that name. The list of backends is stored in order of 
> connection to the master backend, starting with the master backend 
> itself. It pretty much guarantees that in such a configuration, the 
> master backend would never own anything, and files would just keep 
> cycling back and forth among the slaves currently active at the time 
> of the scan.

Seems odd behavior.
Whats the purpose of the hostname value in storagegroups for?
Whats the purpose of the hostname value in videometadata for?





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