[mythtv] running on an epia

Nicolas Mainil nicolas.mainil at gmail.com
Wed Apr 12 19:46:30 UTC 2006


On 4/12/06, Colin Guthrie <mythtv at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
> Nicolas Mainil wrote:
> >>The biggest source of stuttering I found was when I was streaming from
> >>myth b/e rather than getting the data via a shared NFS mount. Shared NFS
> >>Mount is 100x better (an approximate measurement!).
> >
> >
> > Is it running transparently? I mean, do you play the videos on the nfs
> > share from mythfrontend? If yes, how do you set it up? If no, what
> > program do you use?
>
> It does it transparently. Just make sure the file path to the recording
> on both the frontend and backend are the same.
>
> e.g. on the backend I store tv into /video/tv
>
> On the f/e I NFS mount "backend:/video /video".
>
> Myth should then detect this and use the local file rather than stream
> it over myth protocol.
>
> The logs should say stuff about "found local file xyx" or similar if it
> is opening it via NFS (NFS is like local really in terms for file path
> transparency!). If it is streaming it will say something about mythtv://
> IIRC.   I could be quite wrong here, but I think this is correct.
>
> Hope this is what you meant.

Yes thanks, I was not aware of this interesting capability.

Nicolas

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> Col.
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