[mythtv-users] MythWeb Access Help

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Fri Aug 10 16:40:10 UTC 2007


On 08/10/2007 12:27 PM, David Brodbeck wrote:
> On Aug 10, 2007, at 9:20 AM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>   
>>>  I have for a while considered moving my mythtv database to another
>>> box, and running Mythweb on that box. If I can do that without  
>>> having to install
>>> a dummy backend on it for the php to talk to, it obviously  
>>> simplifies the
>>> configuration.
>> You can--as long as they can communicate over the network.
>>     
> Also, Mythweb needs to be able to see the video files,

And music files

>  so you'll need  
> to put those on a network share.

Unless you don't care to use the video/music portions of MythWeb.

>   It grabs them directly, it doesn't  
> stream them from mythbackend.
>
> This also means you can't use Mythweb effectively if you have  
> multiple backends with their own storage.  All the recordings have to  
> be

accessible

>  in one place.

Only if you actually try to stream or download recordings from MythWeb. 
I just watch them with mythfrontend.

Mike



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