On 10/22/05, ffrr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Brandon Gracyalny wrote: > > > I have a mythtv user setup. My recordings and live tv partition is > > /video. I can watch live tv as the mythtv user. When I try to play a > > recording using this user the frontend just goes back to the recording > > list and will not play. If I load the frontend as the root user the > > recording plays fine. > > > > I have also tried to do this through the xbmcscript on my xbox with > > the same results. The file shows up and the preview shows up but it > > will not play. > > > > The owner of the /video file is root. All other users have read and > > write permission on this directory. I have tried chowning the video > > directory as my mythtv user but as soon as a recording happens it goes > > back to being owned as root. > > > > Sounds like permissions on the playing software or system, rather than > the video file then. Does the log have anything useful to say when you > try (or even, run mythfrontend from a consol prompt and see if any > errors show up there)? > > > > > I have fedora core 4 and used the instructions on Jarod's site to > > install mythtv. > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > >_______________________________________________ > >mythtv-users mailing list > >[email protected] > >http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users >
Yea, I would check the permissions on /video/recordings. _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
