[mythtv-users] videoscan metadata artwork problem

[David Watkins]

On Tue, 22 Aug 2023 at 14:50, Stephen Worthington <stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz>
wrote:

> On Tue, 22 Aug 2023 13:31:21 +0100, you wrote:
>
> >On 22/08/2023 10:29, Stephen Worthington wrote:
> >
> >> On Tue, 22 Aug 2023 08:35:54 +0100, you wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Mon, 21 Aug 2023 at 23:21, Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Hoi David,
> >>>>
> >>>> Monday, August 21, 2023, 11:22:36 PM, you wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> Hi,
> >>>>> I'm running a combined backend/frontend with a bunch of old
> >>>>> orphaned recordings on it which I've moved to video storage.
> >>>>
> >>>>> With some help from this list I've got the filenames set so that
> >>>>> mythutil --scanvideos does a pretty good job of finding the correct
> >>>> metadata.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>> However I'm not seeing any pretty artwork.
> >>>>
> >>>>> mythutil is downloading good artwork jpg's into the following
> >>>> directories:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>> /home/mythtv/.mythtv/Video/Artwork/<filename>
> >>>>> /home/mythtv/.mythtv/Video/FanArt
> >>>>> /home/mythtv/.mythtv/Video/Screenshots
> >>>>
> >>>>> but in the videometadata table it is setting the path to each file
> as:
> >>>>
> >>>>> home/mythtv/.mythtv/Video/Artwork/<filename>
> >>>>
> >>>>> That is, it's missing the leading '/'.
> >>>>
> >>>>> If I manually add the '/' to each entry in the database then the
> >>>>> artwork is displayed correctly - but that's not a very workable
> >>>> workaround.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>> Do I have a configuration error?
> >>>>
> >>>>> I should point out that I'm running a early version of 0.32, pre
> >>>>> most of the fixes, so it's quite possible I have a version with a
> >>>>> bug in it (in which case I accept responsibiity for the error)
> >>>>
> >>>>> I just want to make sure I'm not doing something stupid (apart from
> >>>> running a non-production version)
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>> Thanks
> >>>> Have you checked the directory definitions in the storage groups?
> Could
> >>>> there the leading backslash be missing?
> >>>>
> >>>> Tot mails,
> >>>>    Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com
> >>>>
> >>> Hi HIka,
> >>>
> >>> I did check that.  There were no metadata storage groups defined.
> >>>
> >>> I don't see why they would be necessary on a standalone, combined
> >>> front/backend but I did create a couple (for Artwork and Screenshots)
> >>> without it making a difference.  In fact it didn't seem to have any
> effect
> >>> at all so maybe I did something wrong - a bit more work needed there
> before
> >>> I give up on that front.
> >>>
> >>> I'm thinking that the backend doesn't need the  '/'  (because it's
> >>> downloading the artwork to the correct place), but the frontend does
> >>> (because it can't find them there).
> >>>
> >>> I'll futz around for a bit longer and if I don't get anywhere I'll
> need to
> >>> consider whether this is worth an upgrade.
> >>>
> >>> I'm guessing the frontend might be looking in
> >>>
> >>> /home/mythtv/.mythtv/home/mythtv/.mythtv/Video/...    so maybe I can
> just
> >>> copy the artwork to there?
> >>>
> >>> Thanks
> >>> D
> >> I would suggest creating the storage groups and see if that fixes it.
> >> You should have:
> >>
> >> Banners
> >> Coverart
> >> Fanart
> >> Trailers
> >> Videos
> >>
> >> MythTV does have builtin defaults for these, but there may be a bug in
> >> them as they are not normally used because a standard database will
> >> have all the above storage groups defined.  In Ubuntu, they are set to
> >> /var/lib/mythtv/<storagegroup name> and I suspect they are rarely
> >> changed except for the Videos one.
> >
> >
> >One thing you need to be careful off is having both storage groups (set
> >in mythtv-setup) and the old legacy video directory settings (set in the
> >General Settings in the FE) active at the same time. You need to choose
> >which one you want and stick with it. The recommendation is to use
> >storage groups and everything should just work  even on all your remote
> >FE's.
>
> Unfortunately, there are some video types that will not play in
> mythfrontend, so you need to use an external player for them (I use
> mplayer).  Older .wmv files in particular.  So you can not use storage
> groups for those files, and need to use the old directory list, so
> that the external player can get a directory location for the file.
> And you can not tell until you try to play them that they need an
> external player.
> _______________________________________________
>
>
Thanks Paul and Stephen for the recent replies.

I have a plan now then.  I'll set up the recommended storage groups on the
backend and delete the video directory settings in the frontend.

...and I'll backup the database.

I remember using mplayer for videos and even DVD's I think way back, but I
haven't needed to do that for a long time so I don't think I have any files
which won't play nicely in mythfronted.

I might take a few days to get round to it though - now the working week
has kicked in again.

Cheers,

D
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