[mythtv] Myth Virtual Directory / Storage

[Per Åge Sørvik]

Kenneth Aafløy wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I'm currently (along with some other stuff) working on a virtual file/storage 
>for MythTV. The idea is to interconnect all the modules of MythTV with the 
>virtual space, so that launching a module on any item, be it a music file or 
>a livetv feed from a backend card anywhere is the same to the module.
>I've come as far (or as short) as to set up the main framework for it, but I 
>would like the input from all of the excelent and mindboggeling people on 
>this list, as I've seen in the past how you people predict features to be 
>less than what is needed. I would also like to mention that abstracting the 
>filesystem withing Myth will only bring fortune to Mytth, but we could also 
>make filesystem modules for the linux kernel and (uhh**) windows.
>  
>
Just be careful so you don't increase the network load when doing this. 
As it is now, all frontends get the files directly from the machine the 
file is on. If this is going to be virtualised by making a "file hub", 
we would get a much heavier network load. Which is not good on a shared 
medium like wlan.

Using network filenames instead of local filenames would be better (like 
"//somehost/music/somefile.mp3"), but then we get the problem of having 
to support the same network filesystem and same hostnames/ips from all 
frontends.

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peraage