How is the mac front end accessing the mythvideo files? nfs?
Does the user the mac front end is running have access to the mythvideo
directory? Is the mythvideo directory setup correctly for the frontend?
Does a verbose log tell you anything?
Ivor,
I started to reply, then had to rush off to other duties. Your questions pushed me in the right direction, thanks a bunch! after i returned, i sat down and thought about how the Mac was mounting the nfs server that holds my multimedia content.
both KnoppMyth machines nfs-mount volumes served by a separate nfs server for movie and music material. in addition, movie cover art is also held by another separate nfs server (an old Mac G3 that runs my house!). the KnoppMyth machines mount those nfs volumes in an identical fashion, thus allowing (i think) the mythconverg database to function correctly.
The Mac, however, hadn't been configured correctly in regards to mounting the aforementioned nfs volumes. once that was done, everything automagically worked! yay!
I had to open a terminal on the Mac, become root, and create /mnt and /myth. in /mnt i created another directory (/downloads) which holds cover art, amongst other things). in /myth, i created /video, and then in /video i created /video3 and /video4 (the nfs volumes that contain videos). I used NFS Manager to create the mount points for the nfs volumes.
Since MythOnMacOSX was expecting those directories to exist (due to the way I configured the backend...is my thinking correct here?), when they were not found, MythVideo would error when trying to play a movie. Having a Console open when doing this really helped, along with Ivor's queries.
Thanks again, Ivor!
-Bob K.
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