[mythtv-users] Import existing video file?

David Abrahams dave at boost-consulting.com
Mon Jan 9 22:40:00 UTC 2006


"James C. Dastrup" <jc at dastrup.com> writes:

>>I don't think the video manager is what I want.  First of all, it's
>>apparently only designed for using an external player, not for playing
>>within the MythTV frontend.  Secondly, the video manager seems
>>completely messed up when you are running multiple frontends, since
>>they are recorded in the global backend database but only referenced
>>relative to the frontend's local filesystem.
>  
> 1) Change the player to "Internal" for just that recording, then it uses
> MythTV's native internal player.

Cool, thanks.

> 2) Change the Video path so it matches on all frontend. This is easily done by
> just adjusting your mount points.

I haven't yet figured out how to get NFS set up.  Another day, another
hurdle.

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
www.boost-consulting.com


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