Mon Oct 11, 2010 7:24 pm
Symlink support
First, thanks for a great piece of software. I run serviio on a linux box serving Mythtv recorded video to a Sony Bravia. Generally it works great but I have one nagging problem. It is very difficult to get the myth recordings organized in a usable way thru the serviio service.
Mythtv records the videos into a directory with unhelpful names with a flat structure. I can run a program to create symlinks to these files with better names and organization, but this has two problems.
1) Serviio seems to require that the linked to file be in the search path for the library files.
So if the mythtv recorded data is here: /data/tv I have to put my symlink data here: /data/tv/mythlinks. For the most part this is okay as serviio seems to think the linked to files are already added so doesn't add the unhelpful names, just the more nicely named symlinks. However there is no directory structure. All the files get added in a great jumble in one directory.
2) When the meta data is refreshed Serviio seems to get confused about that it has already added unchanged files and adds them again. Eventually you end up with hundreds of duplicate which makes it difficult to find anything. I refresh infrequently and then periodically delete the directory and add it again to clean it out.
It seems like Serviio gets confused by the links, sometimes treating them as links and other times treating them as the linked-to file.
Mythtv records the videos into a directory with unhelpful names with a flat structure. I can run a program to create symlinks to these files with better names and organization, but this has two problems.
1) Serviio seems to require that the linked to file be in the search path for the library files.
So if the mythtv recorded data is here: /data/tv I have to put my symlink data here: /data/tv/mythlinks. For the most part this is okay as serviio seems to think the linked to files are already added so doesn't add the unhelpful names, just the more nicely named symlinks. However there is no directory structure. All the files get added in a great jumble in one directory.
2) When the meta data is refreshed Serviio seems to get confused about that it has already added unchanged files and adds them again. Eventually you end up with hundreds of duplicate which makes it difficult to find anything. I refresh infrequently and then periodically delete the directory and add it again to clean it out.
It seems like Serviio gets confused by the links, sometimes treating them as links and other times treating them as the linked-to file.
