[mythtv-users] basic mythvideo question

[Jon Vanderwoude]

On 10/30/05, Steve Pugh <stevepugh at yahoo.com> wrote:
> --- Paul McKellar <socialmoth.blog at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > So i have everything working.  But i'm confused as
> > to the intent of
> > mythvideo.  Is it meant to stream files to multiple
> > FEs or just play
> > whatever you have locally.
>
> Hi Paul,
>
> It's my understanding that the basic structure is to
> store the files on the BE and then use NFS to play the
> files on the FEs.  Whenever I get around to installing
> software on my new frontend machine, I'll let ya know
> how it works for me in practice ;-)
>
>

Actually the backend will Stream the nuv files through to the front
end, so you don't need to have any file sharing at all enabled.