[mythtv-users] frontend setup (NFS ?) need clarification
chris at cpr.homelinux.net
chris at cpr.homelinux.net
Sat Dec 31 02:41:03 EST 2005
On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 08:01:43PM +0100, Franco wrote:
> How should I set up things so that I can play all my video, music, etc.
> from all the frontends? I believe the answer is "NFS", but should I setup
> things so that the paths look the same from every machine?
> I see that if I try to browse the videos from a frontend, I can see all
> the video "covers" I had setup in the backend database, but when I try
> to play them, I get a "file not found" (or similar) error.
The thumbs and movies are in different directories. Deleting a movie
from the drive doesn't remove it from the database, so it will
continue to appear (with image) until you re-scan your media
directory from the setup page. It will prompt for permission to
remove the missing movie from the database.
In any case, I think your original speculation is correct and MythTV
expects all front-ends to use the same directory paths for the media.
That's easily accomplished, and probably a good idea anyway as
having a common configuration makes maintaining (or adding) machines
easier.
> And how do I should setup things, as I have my videos, music, etc.,
> split among the disks of the various machines?
The directory you specify is deep-scanned, so it's possible to use
multiple nfs mounts to aggregate various machines under that
directory. For example, if box1 exports /home/franco/videos and box2
exports /var/lib/movies, you could mount them as
/multimedia/movies/box1 and /multimedia/movies/box2 and then tell
Myth that the videos are in /multimedia/movies. You could then
aggregate your mp3s under /multimedia/music, thumbs under
/multimedia/thumbs, etc. I would suggest using the nfs auto-mounter
with the "ghost" option so that the mountpoints will be visible.
That way, when Myth isn't playing a movie the nfs share will be
unmounted, but when Myth scans the video directory it will know to
check both box1 and box2 (which will cause them to automatically
mount).
> Last question: the only thing I found mentioned in the FAQ, was the
> "myth://" URL... do I need to use that and where do I put it?
You can probably ignore it. That url is used in MythWeb so that
certain clients (which may not even exist yet) can access recordings
via the web browser.
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