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I'm new to Linux and using Linux Mint as my operating system. I'm coming from windows and have used this software there for a while. I believe that I have followed the readme file correctly. I downloaded this file RenameMyTVSeries-2.3.12-GTK-Linux-x64-static-ffmpeg.tar.xz. I was unsure if I should download the GTK or QT5 version but I googled which one I should used for Linux mint and found out the GTK should be used because the QT5 is used for KDE.
Summary:
3 Media Files: 3 failed.
No extra files found.NOTE:
- For file error details, check the AutoDetect Log window.
- Skipped files, often indicate that a file already had the same name.
- Failed files can be triggered several reason (wrong access rights, adding METADATA to invalid video files, conflicting files, etc.).
@sgibbers17 Sounds like you did the setup for RMTV correctly.
From this I can gather that anything RMTV application related is working (database, reading filename, data retrieval etc).
The issue yo may run into is the file access rights.
I'm not a Linux expert either, but the problem can be found in two places:
- What access rights does the user running RMTV have?
- What access rights are needed to access your media files and directories?
Keep in mind: I'm not a Linux expert and changing access rights of files may be done more refined as what I suggest here.
First you can check the current access rights of you file like so:
ls -l videofile.mp4
Which returns something like this:
-rw-r--r-- 1 hans staff 59443 May 10 2015 videofile.mp4
The first characters (-rw etc) indicating what type of access is set for this file.
"-rw-r--r--" -> In this case the first character indicates if this is a file ("-"), directory ("d") or linked file ("l" an L).
"-rw-r--r--" -> The next set of 3 characters indicate "r" (read), "w" (write), "x" (execute) or "-" (none of the options) for the owner of the file.
"-rw-r--r--" and "-rw-r--r--" -> The 2nd set of 3 does the same or the "group", and the last 3 for "everybody".
Note: You can use my chmod-calculator to determine what the number "777" means. It is also good to read up on how the access rights in general work under Linux. Maybe this article is a good start.
To see if this is a problem, you can try one file first to see what happens, this should provide full access to anyone.
chmod 777 videofile.mp4
which then shows (with "ls -a videofile.mp4") as:
-rwxrwxrwx 1 hans staff 59443 May 10 2015 videofile.mp4
If this works then you can check the directory that is holding the file and elevate access rights to the directory and all its files with.
Note: full access to the directory may be needed for RMTV to create new files, so maybe this may be needed anyway.
chmod -R 777 video_directory
(assuming "video_directory" is the directory holding your media fies)
Note: "777" means full access for everybody, not sure if this is something you want to limit or not, and in that case you'll need to dig more into the way user access works under Linux.
If this is not working then we'd have to look at who the owner is of the file, but that goes a little beyond what I can recommend is "best".
Hope this helps, feel free to come back to this topic so we can figure this out 😊
