[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

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