[mythtv-users] Running nuvexport on a remote host?

James Armstrong james at thearmstrongs.org
Thu Dec 23 20:10:35 UTC 2004


>Every computer that runs the Backend of mythtv has it's own
>RecordFilePrefix setting, any other computer can use that database, as
>i do, by propertly configuring a ~/.mythtv/mysql.txt. But in this way,
>i can't change the host in the database, because i still need the
>backend to record locally.
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>>>However... I've successfully made my own copy of nuvexport, editing
>>>mythtv/recordings.pm:45, commenting the database access and adding my
>>>own path to the recodings.
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>>The whole point of nuvexport is that it pulls show names, etc. from the
>>database.
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>Yes, and that part i use, but it's the path to the actuall files that
>i can't pull from this database, because the info in the database is
>for accessing them locally on the backend, not by my nfs mount of it.
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I have my backend recording to /mythtv/recordings, but my frontend can 
use nuvexport without any modifications. I just mount the 
/mythtv/recordings to /mnt/store on the frontend because that is where 
the RecordFilePrefix is set to.

- James


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