[mythtv-users] media streaming without nfs mount
Matt Rude
mythtv at mattrude.com
Wed Jun 20 18:15:51 UTC 2007
Mike LaPlante wrote:
> This is my understanding of it, though I could be wrong, if I am I'm
> sure someone else will jump in.
>
> Let's say your backend keeps the video recordings in /var/lib/videos.
>
> The frontend will look on its own filesystem for /var/lib/videos, if it
> doesn't find them there, it will stream all recordings from the backend
> via its myth:// protocol. This requires no setup, simply make it so the
> frontend can't find the video files.
>
> However, I believe in the playback setup menu there is an option to
> always stream even if it finds the video files on its filesystem. I'm
> not even really sure why its there, seems to me its easy enough to force
> the streaming, I'm sure there's good reason though or else the devs
> wouldn't have bothered.
>
> Mike
> jenny tc wrote:
>
>> how to specify in the setup menu to always stream even if the video
>> partition is there ?
>> I created a directory in my local machine that holds videos and
>> specified it as video directory using the 'setup->video
>> settings->general settings' menu. I can play video from that
>> directory. but i don't want to keep any video files in my system .
>> instead i'll keep all videos in a remote machine directory. can i
>> play videos from that directory without using NFS mount.if so how?
>>
>> -Jenny
>>
>> On 6/20/07, *Mike LaPlante* < mike at dividia.net
>> <mailto:mike at dividia.net>> wrote:
>>
>> Frontends will look for the video partition first, if its not
>> there they
>> will stream from the backend, or you can specify in the setup menu for
>> them to always stream even if the partition is there.
>>
>> So, yes, you don't need to setup NFS. At least not for Live or
>> Recorded
>> TV. I believe Mythvideo works streaming as well, don't know about
>> MythMusic though, I have mine NFS mounted.
>>
>> Mike
>>
>> jenny tc wrote:
>> > Hai ,
>> >
>> > I'm jenny , I just joined to the mythtv mailing list and I am a
>> > newcomer to the mythtv world. I want to setup a media server which
>> > stores different media files and also have tuner cards . Machines
>> > connected to the media server will run mythfrontend. Is there
>> any way
>> > to configure directories in media server as video and music
>> sources
>> > without using nfs mount?
>> >
>> > -Jenny
>> >
>>
>>
>
Mike are you sure your not thing of a recording being able to stream
from the backend to the frontend. I'm pretty sure that short of setting
up all the videos as recordings you can not stream to MythVideo. I
don't even think the backend handles any MythVideo info just the database.
Also make sure you ALWAYS bottom post.
-Matt
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 250 bytes
Desc: OpenPGP digital signature
Url : http://mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/attachments/20070620/e1546ed1/attachment.pgp
More information about the mythtv-users
mailing list