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MythVideo - New Videos not Showing Up

post #1 of 12
Thread Starter 
I keep DVD ISOs on my media server that I connect to via SMB. MythVideo is setup to look for for videos in /var/lib/mythtv/videos. I have a softlink from my SMB mount point into the MythVideo location, making it appear as if the ISOs reside in /var/lib/mythtv/videos/dvd. I have around 40 DVDs in my database, but I added another file to the share and I can't get it to show up in MythVideo. I searched through all of the config screens and couldn't find a scan option analogous to the scan function in MythMusic. Any help is much appreciated.
post #2 of 12
Did you try utilities/Setup->Video Manager? That what usually scans them in before it starts. You can also set it up so that you can browse directories that haven't been scanned in another setup menu.
post #3 of 12
Thread Starter 
Yes, its odd, the video doesn't show up in the video manager. If I go to the directory through the command line, I can see the video.
post #4 of 12
Do they have long filenames or special characters? sometimes that will mess things up over a samba share. If you turn on directory browsing in mythvideo can you browse to them through myth?
post #5 of 12
Thread Starter 
I think that I've figured it out, the video that I added is a soft link. I have multiple volumes on my file server containing ISOs that I wanted to show up as a single directory to my Mythbox. Is there a Samba option to make these show up as files instead of softlinks? Essentially, I think that my Mythbox is trying to find these files locally based upon the information in the soft link, i.e.:

Waiting.iso -> /mnt/dvd2/Waiting.iso
post #6 of 12
I use soft links to link multiple directories and files (from various mount points) to my mythvideo directory and subdirectories, and they work fine. Perhaps there is some option about processing soft links, but I didn't set up anything special in samba.
post #7 of 12
I use softlinks to a completely different drive array no problem.. are you sure you have the video extension programmed into myth video?
post #8 of 12
Thread Starter 
Yes, ISOs that weren't softlinks within the share worked fine. I have the "followsymlinks" option enabled with no success. I am going to try having a first directory with softlinks to the ISOs and then a second directory with hard links to the soft links. Hopefully sharing the second directory will fix this.
post #9 of 12
Do you have to use a link? What if you just create a /mnt/ripped_movies point and then in the MythTV setup you point at that? (Maybe that is technically the same thing).

Just a thought.
post #10 of 12
Thread Starter 
I'd prefer to export a single samba share as opposed to having multiple shares mounted to a single directory on the myth box. Additionally this allows me to move movies around on the file server without breaking the associated file path on the mythbox.
post #11 of 12
Quote:
Originally Posted by jonbergh View Post

Do you have to use a link? What if you just create a /mnt/ripped_movies point and then in the MythTV setup you point at that? (Maybe that is technically the same thing).

Just a thought.


If you have multiple directories with video content (that aren't in the subdirectory tree of /mnt/ripped_movies, for example) that you want to be accessible through mythvideo you will still have to use symbolic links because myth can only point to one parent directory at a time.
post #12 of 12
Thread Starter 
I have a temporary fix going, I set unix extensions = no in my smb.conf file on the file server. Unfortunately, this is a global setting, not a by share setting. There are also some client side settings that can replicate the same thing in /etc/fstab. I'll post here if I get them working.
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