Can't find recordings

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1.run mythbox script on XBMC (linux - ubuntu/jaunty) 
2. select "Watch Recordings":  all recording show up in list
3. select any recording and get error message in a small pop up window: 
"Error:CATCHCALL Exception: can't find recording
"mythtv_video_file.mpg"(the actual video file corresponding with my
selection) Function: <function onlnit at 0x4d2eca0>  

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Playback of recording.  Error message popup.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
XBMC:  whatever version the jaunty ubuntu PPA is using right now.
OS:    Linux, Ubuntu Janty-jackelope
Mythbox:  Beta 3 (SVN 1062) 
Please provide any additional information below.
I have a master backend server(no frontend on this) that multiple frontends
connect to.  I do have the settings correct for mythtv and mysql(obviously,
or I wouldn't even be able to select a show to watch)
Under paths, I've tried using my backend recording directories, but get an
error they don't exist--assuming this is for the local machine only.  I do
have a mythtv-frontend and slave backend on this machine.  I don't run the
frontend while using XBMC.  Also got this same error some time ago on a
windows XP machine--was hoping to be able to build a windows based myth
frontend.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by kristina...@gmail.com on 23 May 2009 at 7:39

Attachments:

• XBMC_error_screenshot.png
• mythbox.log
• jeff45-xbmc.log

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MythBox does not stream the recordings from the backend to the frontend. It 
lets the
filesystem take care of that (thats what it does best) and only talks to the 
backend
for everything else. Under a reasonable amount of load on the backend, 
streaming has
a tendency to "sputter" while reading from a network filesystem is more robust.

Export your recordings directory on the backend with your network filesystem of
choice (NFS, Samba, etc).  

Mount the share on your frontend machine and enter this directory as the 
'Recording
Directory' in MythBox.

Original comment by semir.pa...@gmail.com on 9 Jun 2009 at 10:40

• Changed state: Invalid

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Thanks for the reply.  After many, many hours of fooling around with this, I 
got it
to work.  I did suspect the "paths" settings to be the issue.  Since this was 
on a
Windows version, I had a hard time getting a path mythbox/XBMC would accept.  
Since
my backend was already visible (samba), I used that path with no success.  I 
mapped
the necessary shares to a drive on windows and voila, fixed.  However, I am
disappointed in the lack of instruction for using this plugin (I'm not a 
developer,
no coding skills).      

Original comment by kristina...@gmail.com on 12 Jun 2009 at 9:27

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kristinaray,

Can you explain how you set this up exactly. I use knoppmyth for my backend. I 
have
one vista computer in the house. I enabled samba on the backend. I then located 
the
mythtv share and mapped it to drive M:. Then in the mythbox setup I entered
m:\tv;m:;m:\video and every permutation of these that I could think of 
including:
M:\tv
m:\tv
m:\tv\
M:\tv\

I got the blah_blah_blah.mpg not found error every time. I can play the files 
fine if
I navigate to m:\tv with the windows file manager and double click them.

Original comment by ronsay...@gmail.com on 13 Jun 2009 at 6:17