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

[Nick Rout]

If you use mythweb you can access videos via the web interface.

You need to setup a symlink in your mythweb directory (on my system
/var/www/localhost/htdopcs/mythweb) called video_url which points to the
directory where your video files are stored.


nick at media ~ $ ls -l /var/www/localhost/htdocs/mythweb/video_url
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 23 Jul 24 23:29 \ /var/www/localhost/htdocs/mythweb/video_url
-> /home/nick/media/movies

Then just click on the link in your browser and the file will load
across the lan and play in your player.


On Sun, 27 Nov 2005 09:28:03 -0600
Kevin Kuphal wrote:

> 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?
> 
> Yes.  Plugins are *frontend* plugins, not backend plugs so they run and 
> expect to access files via the frontend file systems.  The backend knows 
> nothing about these plugins (music, pictures, videos).  NFS seems to be 
> the best choice.  Also, check the settings in your various plugins to be 
> sure they are not referencing host specific folders (like /home/mythtv) 
> for storage of various items as storing them in the shared filesystem 
> will make things much easier if you use multiple frontends.
> 
> Kevin
> 
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