[mythtv] Virect video playback via NFS

[Chris Pinkham]

> I noticed in commits:
> 
> "Fix the ability for frontend servers to read a video file directly if it
> is available rather than having to stream from a remote backend."
> 
> I was just wondering if this requires a make distclean to work properly. I did
> recompile both backend and frontend machines, and I do mount my masters
> storage directory on my frontend via NFS, but I still can't see the recorded
> programs on the frontend.
> 
> Unfortunately the machines are being used right now so I can't verify myself
> just yet, was just curious. If it doen't need a make distclean, then either I
> can't get it to work, or I'm missunderstanding what the fix does.
> 
> tia,
> Lonny

It makes it so that the frontend can read the file directly rather
than streaming it from the backend.  The frontend still has to talk to
the backend to get the list of recordings.  It sounds like you thought
that this allows the frontend to read the recordings directory and present
a list of files without having to go through the backend and that is not
the case.  The fix just allows the frontend to read the file directly
from a nfs server rather than having the backend read the file then stream
it over the net to the frontend.

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Chris