[mythtv-users] Accessing content other then tv from frontend

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Nedim Cholich wrote:

> Possibly a newbe question.
>
> I've just finished building my myth backend. Things seem to work fine 
> (except I haven't put up antenna for HD3000). Before I start building 
> fronend(s) I am testing the setup from my laptop. While both live and 
> recorded tv works great, mythfrontend seems to want to access, videos, 
> pictures and music from local filesystem. Is this how it's suppose to 
> be? Am I suppose to export these files through nfs or myth can stream 
> these like it does tv?




That's what I have ended up doing.  I now have the storage on my myth 
box exported via nfs, and mounted to the remote machine in the same 
place in the tree, to ensure things like file paths and symlinks all 
work.  Once done, it is all very transparent and works very well.