[dc2447]

skin-pm3-hd, xbmc 9.04.1 on Karmic.

This is a stupid question but how do I add sources on local filesystems outside of your homedirectory?

For example, when I go to video in non library mode I have three options

=> Add source
=> Volume1
= > Volume2

My content is under volumes 1 + 2

If I go add source, I see no way of navigating outside my home directory to /volume1/DVD

If I go directly to /volume1/DVD/ - I can't add this as a source, nothing happens after setting the content.

However if I sylink /volume1/DVD/ to ~/ then I can add this fine.

I am obviously missing something very obvious.

[The-Boxhead]

Nope, if you're going to add local sources symlinking is the only way.

You really should instead use a network server to give your XBMC sources.
why do you need to add local sources ?

[dc2447]

Nope, if you're going to add local sources symlinking is the only way.

You really should instead use a network server to give your XBMC sources.
why do you need to add local sources ?

xbmc is running on the same box as the content, it's a mac mini with a bunch of storage on usb.

I can understand using network sources to access the content from other xbmc clients on the network but not on a machine with local storage.

I appreciate your response

[The-Boxhead]

if you are having usb disks they should be automounted in xbmc
as a source ready to use. (as long as there is a filesystem on the disk that can be mounted in linux, either in read or read/write mode)

i had some trouble in an older svn but read/write mounting works in recent svn
this thread has some info:
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=47060

[dc2447]

if you are having usb disks they should be automounted in xbmc
as a source ready to use. (as long as there is a filesystem on the disk that can be mounted in linux, either in read or read/write mode)

i had some trouble in an older svn but read/write mounting works in recent svn
this thread has some info:
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=47060

Sure, they are automated on my box, I just can assign content to them so they get indexed for my library.

Not that I would want to anyways, as those disk contain content I wouldn't want to have indexed as well as content I would. Indexing the the whole disk would be a bad thing.

Does that make sense?

[The-Boxhead]

then u need to be sure that you dont use librarymode. To manually
browse content which is not added or scanned you must use filemode.

If you want to add say /volume1/DVD/
select the DVD folder trough videos filemode and bring up the contentmenu
by right clicking on the folder.

You have done as in the WIKI:
Add sources:
http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=Adding_Media_Sources
and set content
http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=Set_Contents_(Video_Library)

but im not sure i understand your question in the first place

[dc2447]

then u need to be sure that you dont use librarymode. To manually
browse content which is not added or scanned you must use filemode.

If you want to add say /volume1/DVD/
select the DVD folder trough videos filemode and bring up the contentmenu
by right clicking on the folder.

This is the part that doesn't work for me. I can't assign content to any folders on automounted usb device sub folders however I can assign content type to the same folders symlinked to my home directory

Let's leave it there, I'll live with symlinks

[The-Boxhead]

But for the sake of my piece of mind...
could you enable debug logging and try enable a source ?
the psot the Debug Log on pastebin.

[dc2447]

New related problem.

I have an ext usb disk mounted as /drivestation

As per original post, I add this as a symlink under /home/mythtv/

ln -s /drivestaion/DVD/TV_Shows

I set the content and my content gets indexed.

However new content isn't getting automatically scanned.

When I use the context menu in file mode in TV_Shows - no content is set. Setting the content immediately sets off a scan. This circle of events happens over and over again, add content, scan kicks off.

Afaik my sources.xml isn't being changed each time as the scrapper info isn't determined by there

<source>
<name>TV_Shows</name>
<path pathversion="1">/home/mythtv/TV_Shows/</path>
</source>

So my question is, why would xbmc be 'forgetting' what content I have set for a folder?

[mkortstiege]

Try to unset content (set content to None) and wipe all related items if asked for it. Then re-set the content and try again.

[dc2447]

Try to unset content (set content to None) and wipe all related items if asked for it. Then re-set the content and try again.

The content is already set to 'none' when I navigate to the folder in file mode.

[mkortstiege]

Hmz, mind posting a full debug log?

[dc2447]

Hmz, mind posting a full debug log?

sure

http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/1134165/xbmc.log.gz

[mkortstiege]

No idea whats wrong tbh. You might try a more recent nightly build.

[dc2447]

No idea whats wrong tbh. You might try a more recent nightly build.

Thanks for looking - I'll investigate nightly build