[Mythnettv] Hello and possible bug?

[Thomas Mashos]

Almost forgot, I think that it should look for a mythnettv storage
directory first.  Just my thoughts as someone might want a different
directory for these shows

Thomas



On Sun, 2008-08-24 at 12:44 -0700, Michael Still wrote:
> Thomas Mashos wrote:
> > I could be wrong, but it's my understanding that the "data" directory
> > (or wherever you have datadir set to) is more like a working directory
> > then the shows get transferred to the recording directory.  I'm not
> > entirely sure on this and am basing this on what i've read about
> > mythnettv.  
> 
> Thomas is correct. The MythNetTV data directory is just a temporary 
> location for things which are being downloaded. Once the download is 
> complete, the video is moved into the MythTV recordings directory.
> 
> > I'd note that on my system it stuck the recording
> > in /mythtv/recordings/ovit500/ which is my recording directory.  It
> > could only have grabbed that info from the db.
> 
> Yeah, depending on the version of MythTV you're using it either uses the 
> result of a settings lookup for RecordFilePrefix with the current hostname:
> 
> select * from settings where value = "RecordFilePrefix" and hostname = "%s";
> 
> Or a storage group with the name "MythNetTV" if there was no generic 
> RecordFilePrefix:
> 
> select * from storagegroup where groupname="MythNetTV" and hostname = "%s";
> 
> Or if that fails, just the default storage group:
> 
> select * from storagegroup where groupname="Default" and hostname = "%s";
> 
> Cheers,
> Mikal
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