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Author:  Gibble [ Sun May 17, 2009 12:50 pm ]
Post subject:  Can't see videos on SBE - UPDATE: Can't play videos on SBE
So, my master backend has an external USB drive mounted at /myth/video/USB where I keep all my videos.

The SBE has /myth/video symlinked to /mnt/mythtvmaster/video

It sees the USB directory, BUT, the contents are NOT what is on the USB drive...but an old file that I think is in that location if the USB drive was not mounted there.

What could be causing this? And more importantly, how can I fix it?
Author:  graysky [ Sun May 17, 2009 12:58 pm ]
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Permissions on the nfs exports or on that mount dir on your SBE? Can you see the contents from a shell on the SBE? Post your /etc/exports on the MBE and the /etc/fstab on the SBE.
Author:  Gibble [ Sun May 17, 2009 1:03 pm ]
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No I can't see them in the shell, I see a file that is wrong, like it's looking at the /myth/video/USB directory without the USB drive mounted there. But on the MBE I see the files.

/etc/exports on MBE
Code:
# /etc/exports: the access control list for filesystems which may be exported
#               to NFS clients.  See exports(5).
#
# Example for NFSv2 and NFSv3:
# /srv/homes       hostname1(rw,sync) hostname2(ro,sync)
#
# Example for NFSv4:
# /srv/nfs4        gss/krb5i(rw,sync,fsid=0,crossmnt)
# /srv/nfs4/homes  gss/krb5i(rw,sync)
#
/myth   *(rw,no_root_squash,async,nohide)


/etc/fstab on SBE
Code:
# /etc/fstab: filesystem table.
#
# filesystem  mountpoint  type  options  dump  pass
/dev/hda1  /  ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro  0  1
/dev/hda3  /myth  auto  defaults,auto  0  2

proc  /proc  proc  defaults  0  0
/dev/fd0  /floppy  vfat  defaults,user,noauto,showexec,umask=022  0  0
usbfs  /proc/bus/usb  usbfs  devmode=0666  0  0
sysfs  /sys  sysfs  defaults  0  0
tmpfs  /dev/shm  tmpfs defaults  0  0
/dev/cdrom /cdrom  auto  defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto  0  0
# Added by KNOPPIX
/dev/hda2 none swap defaults 0 0

mythtv:/myth /mnt/mythtvmaster nfs rsize=8192,wsize=8192,soft,nfsvers=3
Author:  Gibble [ Sun May 17, 2009 1:29 pm ]
Post subject: 
Did some reading, and changed my exports to
Code:
/myth   192.168.0.7(rw,no_root_squash,async,nohide)
/myth/video/USB    192.168.0.7(rw,no_root_squash,async,nohide)


and the fstab on the SBE to
Code:
mythtv:/myth /mnt/mythtvmaster nfs rsize=8192,wsize=8192,soft,nfsvers=3
mythtv:/myth/video/USB /mnt/mythtvmaster/video/USB ext2 rsize=8192,wsize=8192,soft,nfsvers=3


So that it was explicit, so now I can see the files in the console, but they still won't play. :(

Oddly, my music is on that same drive and it works...
Author:  Gibble [ Sun May 17, 2009 2:45 pm ]
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grr I can even play them from the command line with
Code:
mplayer filename.avi


They just won't play in MythVideo I select the file, white Loading... text appears, then it doesn't play.

It's just the internal player that won't work
Author:  tjc [ Sun May 17, 2009 5:19 pm ]
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Most likely MythTV doesn't know what path to search for them. If it's different between the MBE and the SBE you'll need to add a symlink or a machine specific config setting so that the SBE can find them.

It looks like the setting you want is "VideoStartupDir". Add or update the entry in the settings table that has the hostname of your SBE to point to the path to /myth/video as the SBE sees it.

Oh, and you may need to use the mount options to make those directories and files belong to the mythtv user.
Author:  Gibble [ Sun May 17, 2009 5:35 pm ]
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If I switch to mplayer as the player from Internal, it works fine. So I don't believe it's permissions, or path related.
Author:  Gibble [ Sun May 31, 2009 11:40 am ]
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Any ideas? I still haven't been able to get the internal player working with videos.
Author:  tjc [ Sun May 31, 2009 3:37 pm ]
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Have you tried running the FE with debugging enabled (especially "file" and "playback") to see why it isn't happy? There's a very good chance that will tell you right out what is wrong.
Author:  Gibble [ Mon Jun 01, 2009 9:53 pm ]
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:? I switched it back to Internal to do some debugging...and it's working?!?

I'm not complaining, just hate it when things start to work for no apparent reason, makes me think it'll stop for no reason later on.

The machine hasn't rebooted, nor have I done anything configuration wise since...

Ah well :D it works.

Thanks for the help.
Author:  tjc [ Mon Jun 01, 2009 10:08 pm ]
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It may just have been a matter of needing to restart things for settings to take effect.
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