I looked around on the forum for this but couldn't find a similar post.

I just installed KnoppMyth R5A30.1 and I am trying to transfer some of my movies from my PC to my myth box. I was able to connect to my myth box using winSCP.

Going off the file system layout I transferred 1 image, 1 mp3, and 1 mpg file to their appropriate directories. When I went to my mythtv box, I was able to play the mp3 and view the picture I sent over. However, I am unable to view the video I transferred over. When I open up 'Watch Videos', all I get is /video in the upper left corner of the screen and up and down arrows on the right-hand side.

It acts like there is no file in that directory. I thought maybe there was an issue with the file format not being supported, so I added a 2nd file. This time i sent over an avi file. Neither file shows up.

Since the mp3 and image worked fine, I wonder if I am doing something wrong.

Any help or suggestions would greatly be appreciated.

go into setup->video manager and the directory will be re-scanned and the files will be added to the database. You will then be able to see them in Watch Videos.

You sir, just made my day. Thank you.

people always wonder why i love the linux comunity.
search the forums get the answer.. ive never been the first to have a problem

thanks

On a PC, I created many ISO files, to back up my DVD collection. I moved these ISO files from an external USB drive to a myth/video subdirectory (myth/video/dvdbackup). None of the ISO's in myth/video/dvdbackup are shown in Watch Videos. I have gone to the video manager and it appears to take a moment to re-scan. However, still no luck.

Question: If ISO files within a /video subdirectory do not show up in Watch Videos, is this a permissions issue?

(I have ripped some ISO's using mythburn into myth/video. Those videos play just fine in Watch Videos.)

Answered my own question. I did a chmod 777 to each subdirectory folder. Now, everything shows up. Perhaps this will help someone else, down the road. ***do not do this, see posts below***

You should be able to just set the directories chmod u=rwx,go=rx, and the files chmod u=rw,go=r. Please don't do the a+rwx thing when it's not absolutely necessary or suggest it to others. It's a really, really ugly meme.

Hi,
I usually just change the ownership to mythtv.

# chown mythtv:mythtv /myth/________/* to hit all the files


mythtv needs the permissions, not the whole world.
Mike

That's even better. It's always a good idea to get the right ownerships and permissions to keep things running smoothly.

tjc & mjl, thanks for setting me on the right path regarding proper permissions. I have edited my previous post.