Can't save downloaded videos to nfs:// or smb:// directory

[Nwardezir]

No matter how hard I tried, giving all rights and access to the directories, downloaded videos aren't copied on a nfs or smb chosen directory in Youtube addon settings.

Log available here : http://www.xbmclogs.com/show.php?id=20258

As shown, video are kept into the initial /var/mobile/Library/Preferences/XBMC/userdata/addon_data/script.module.simple.downloader/ directory and never copied.
See Error message at lines 342 and 343.

Btw, the log I linked is for an smb-type directory only, but the issue is the same for nfs (tested, same error message, still doesn't work)

[TobiasTheViking]

The file move is done using the "xbmcvfs" library provided by xbmc.

I would suggest you try upgrading your xbmc to the latest version, and if you still encounter the problem you should take it up with team xbmc. The xbmcvfs library we utilize was made specifically to support nfs and smb shares.

[Nwardezir]

Err ... ok.
But, as a side note, every test I ran was on last version Frodo 12.2.

[Nwardezir]

Tried to get in touch with "team xbmc", dunno if this is the proper way to do it : http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=102371&pid=1426806#pid1426806 ... we'll see.

[TobiasTheViking]

I understand the frustration of "It's them". But really there ain't much i think i can do.

You could also try the #xbmc channel on freenode. The good thing there is, if you find some xbmc guy that says "oh, it's the youtube downloader, not us", you can pester me directly in there.

[TobiasTheViking]

Btw, do note that amet's message(that you quoted) says what i says.
"unless the addons that you are using are modified to use xbmcvfs.copy('src', 'dest') you will not be able to save to SMB:// "

We are using xbmcvfs.

[Nwardezir]

Yep, that's the problem, you are using xbmcvfs but I still have error when it comes to moving a downloaded outube video to an SMB directory :

03:13:38 T:122019840 NOTICE: [YouTube-4.4.4] _processQueue : 'Moving u'/var/mobile/Library/Preferences/XBMC/userdata/addon_data/script.module.simple.downloader/-SHAKA RECORDING--[54_qEk-0tpY].mp4' to u'smb://SLAUGHTERLOGY/Videos/Vrac/FromTheNet/-SHAKA RECORDING--[54_qEk-0tpY].mp4''
03:13:38 T:122019840 ERROR: MoveFile - cant move file </var/mobile/Library/Preferences/XBMC/userdata/addon_data/script.module.simple.downloader/-SHAKA RECORDING--[54_qEk-0tpY].mp4>. trying lower case
</var/mobile/library/preferences/xbmc/userdata/addon_data/script.module.simple.downloader/-shaka recording--[54_qek-0tpy].mp4>

I hope someone will find a fix here or over there :(

[yannrouillard]

Hi,

This bug is still present. I opened a bug on xbmc about it xbmc/xbmc#4847

I workarounded it on my installation by having script.module.simple.downloader try a copy/delete if rename doesn't work (modification here https://github.com/yannrouillard/xbmc-simple-downloader).

Yann

[yannrouillard]

github bug tracker is not used by xbmc, I had to open it on trac: http://trac.xbmc.org/ticket/15271

[yannrouillard]

The xbmc upstream answer is that rename should only be used for local files or folder, see http://trac.xbmc.org/ticket/15271#comment:4.

Would you consider a patch like this to be able to handle this case ? yannrouillard/xbmc-simple-downloader@8a7649f

[TobiasTheViking]

Yeah, i'll take that, just make a PR to the repo and i'll pull it.

But a rename/move not working, that's just stupid. Really really stupid. Especially considering, as i said before, that that was the point, that it should work agnostically.

I'm closing this bug as i expect a PR.

Thanks :)