[mythtv-users] Video Scanning Problem

[Michael Watson]

On 29/01/2013 3:09 PM, Raymond Wagner wrote:
> On 1/28/2013 22:55, Michael Watson wrote:
>> On 29/01/2013 2:43 PM, Raymond Wagner wrote:
>>> On 1/28/2013 22:22, Michael Watson wrote:
>>>> 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?
>>>
>>> Ideally, all storage groups should be defined on the master backend.
>>> The hostname allows you to configure overrides specific to one slave
>>> backend.
>>>
>>>> Whats the purpose of the hostname value in videometadata for?
>>>
>>> Same as for recordings, it records the host one which that video can
>>> be found, so frontends know what backend to stream it from if they
>>> cannot find it in their own local filesystem.
>>
>> OK, so my only real option is to work out why some files dont stream
>> properly, and locate videos in a location where the frontends/sbe's cant
>> find them locally.
>
> As mentioned, slave backends can configure overrides for storage 
> groups. If a slave backend has anything defined locally (even 
> non-existent dummy paths), it will ignore the global paths and use the 
> local ones instead.

Will this change the behavior when doing "Scan for New Videos"?
The only Storage Groups I have, are all located on the MBE.
Should VideoStartupDir have any value assigned?