[mythtv] Ticket #4270: MythTV on Windows (with MinGW)

Simon Kenyon simon at koala.ie
Sun Dec 30 10:28:14 UTC 2007


Andrei Tanas wrote:
>> Speaking of which: does somebody want to take a look at how Myth
>> handles file paths? If under Linux a network share can be mounted so
>> it's accessible using the same path (like /home/mythtv/videos), it's
>> not possible to do so with Windows. This kind of messes things up,
>> since MythVideo shares the same configurations between all machines in
>> one system.
>> Also, ':' is being treated as a separator, which makes it impossible to
>> use drive letters (which, coincidentally, is needed to use network
>> shares).
>>
>> Network shares can use UNC paths (\\servername\share) rather than drive
>> letters.
>>     
>
> Ugh, I know that, but it doesn't make it possible to map a directory on a
> Linux server and on Windows frontend so it's accessible to applications on
> both systems using exactly the same path.
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i always thought that this was suboptimal in myth
i always thought that paths should be relative and on each 
{front|back}end the location of the start of the relative path should be 
configured
the same goes for the icon paths in the channel table. this could be 
extended to every file location stored in the database.

--
simon



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