[mythtv-users] Sharing VIDEO with remote FE - Help Please.

[cossaboon.mythtv at mac.com]

I am trying to setup a front-end (FE) to use the stored VIDEO in the / 
myth/video directory on the BackEnd (BE) that also has a FE. All are  
Knoppmyth. I had to change the player's options to use X11, but now  
the BE with an integrated FE can see and play the VIDEO fine. The  
remote FE can not.

1) the 'data base' that holds the VIDEO information seems to be not  
shared. I have to go in and recognize the video on the BE for it to  
play them, then the FE states, that the video is moved, and needs to  
re-recognize them (setup/video), then the BE/FE will not see them,  
and around and around I go.

2) the FE has a BAD lip-Sync Issue that is not there on recordings  
from TV or live-tv. Note that one of the VIDEO is a TV recording  
moved to the VIDEO directory.

What I did:

Quick explanation:
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BE/FE - Created a NFS mount of the /myth direcotory
FE - mounted the NFS mount
FE - changed the VIDEO Playback SETUP to point to the new mount for  
video (and posters)

More Detailed explanation:
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following directions at

http://knoppmythwiki.org/index.php?page=NFSHowTo

but I had no /etc/export

SO I created one with a single line

/myth/video             192.168.11.0/24(ro) #Export my videos

then did the;

/etc/init.d/nfs-common start
/etc/init.d/nfs-kernel-server start

then updated the kernal

update-rc.d nfs-common defaults
update-rc.d nfs-kernel-server defaults

then I went to the frontend

mkdir /mnt/share-videos
mount 192.168.11.105:/myth/video /mnt/share-videos

Then updated fstab with

#mount for video sharing

192.168.11.105:/myth/video /mnt/share-videos nfs  
defaults,auto,noatime 0 0

and changed the MYTH application's setup to look for videos in the

/mnt/share-videos

directory

PROBLEMS:

It did not work!

I can see the files, but Myth on the FE states that they are 'not  
there', I went to video setup, re-recognized the videos, and then  
they played. They played poorly. Lip Sync was out my 30 seconds....

I went back to the BE/FE and tried to play the videos. The BE/FE  
needed to re-recognize the files, then the played with no lip-sync  
issue.

changed the mount to be the whole /myth directory and nothing.



From:
     Kevin Cossaboon
     Home MAC Mini Computer
     http://www.cossaboon.net
     cossaboon.mythtv at mac.com


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