PSA: User of MyMovies Driver by Extra Vegetables, please read

[ILoveC4]

So, I finally upgraded to MyMovies 5 a couple of weeks back. All was working well, as expected.

 

One night my wife was adding a few movies to the system, and it popped up asking her for "credentials to access the external server" (we backup our movies to a NAS). I put in the admin username and password so it would have full R/W access. We went down to the theater and watched a movie...all was well.

 

Suddenly, the next morning, no movies would play. It would just toggle over to the media player, but the movie would never start playing. EV support was able to see that a username and password was being passed along to the media player. The NFS was connected properly, and even enabling guest access so no login credentials were required wouldn't fix the problem.

 

After EV pointed out the credentials that were being passed through seemed odd, and many attempts at rebuilding the database, changing login credentials, etc... I decided to go ahead and delete the movie database from within MyMovies and rescan my entire NAS. This is quite time consuming due to the size of my media library, but in the end it did fix the problem.

So, the bottom line is, after you upgrade to MyMovies5, make sure and set the external server credentials and folder monitoring BEFORE you import and restore your MyMovies database. Something has changed in the way that was handled between MM4 and MM5, and if you don't do this you'll deal with constant headache until you do.

[thecodeman]

Thanks for the pro-tip. Still haven't made the upgrade as my server is offline pending a rebuild.