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Allan Wilson allanwilson at gmail.com
Sun Dec 3 18:25:31 UTC 2006


On 12/3/06, Chris Pinkham <cpinkham at bc2va.org> wrote:
>
> * On Sun Dec 03, 2006 at 10:29:59AM -0600, Allan Wilson wrote:
> > >It's trying to open the file remotely, but the pathname indicates that
> it
> > >is local.  Is there a /mnt/videob/tv/ directory that contains your
> > >recordings?  What version of MythTV are you running?
> >
> > That is the directory on my backend where the recordings are store. I am
> > using the SVN from  Friday and storage groups. I am using nfs but I am
> am
> > only sharing my movies, music, and pictures directories. Should Myth
> stream
> > this or do you have to share it with nfs?
>
> It should be able to stream it since it should be using GetPlaybackURL.
>
> Can you edit programs/mythfrontend/playbackbox.cpp and find the
> PlaybackBox::startPlayer() function and search for the following lines:
>
>         if (rec->pathname.left(1) != "/")
>             rec->pathname = rec->GetPlaybackURL(true);
>         previewVideoRingBuf = new RingBuffer(rec->pathname, false, false,
> 1);
>         if (!previewVideoRingBuf->IsOpen())
>
> Comment out the 'if (rec->pathname.left(1) != "/")' line and see if that
> fixes the issue.  If it doesn't, then can you send me (directly, not via
> the
> list) the logs from your frontend and backend when you run the following
> and can reproduce the error.
>
> mythfrontend -v file > mythfrontend.log 2>&1
>
> mythbackend -v file,schedule > mythbackend.log 2>&1
>
> I think should help me see what is going on if the above commented line
> didn't fix the issue.
>
> --
> Chris
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I commented out just that line. How do I compile just that program?

Allan
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