[mythtv-users] backend power

[Kevin Kuphal]

Jared Greenwald wrote:
> I seem to be a little confused about how this whole backend/frontend 
> thing works.
>
> I'd like to be able to keep all of my media up on the backend.  This 
> includes transcoded DVD movies, music, and tv shows.  It doesn't seem 
> to be setup this way.  Ultimately, I'd like to setup a single backend 
> machine with multiple frontend machines.  I'd like all of the media 
> files to reside on the backend so that they can be played on any of 
> the frontend machines.
>
> I'm playing with a test setup at the moment with a backend and 
> separate frontend machine and when I attempt to rip a DVD, it seems to 
> just plop the resulting files on the local frontend's disk. 
>
> Also, same with mp3s/music files.
>
> Has anyone tried this?  How would I be able to set this up such that 
> everything is shared.
>
Share the disks from your backend using NFS
Mount the disks in the same place on all your machines
Set the locations for all your plugins on the frontend to the mounted disks

Plugins (like MythDVD, MythMusic, etc) run on the frontend so they just 
need access to the backend storage as a share.  The backend will store 
locally, of course.

Kevin