[mythtv-users] media streaming without nfs mount
Mike LaPlante
mike at dividia.net
Wed Jun 20 19:35:53 UTC 2007
Matt Rude wrote:
> 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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Well, before I setup my NFS I selected MythVideo on my frontend and
there was a strange folder, I forget what it was called, but after
several clicks I got to my video files that are not recordings. Its all
my anime avi's. So I think somehow MythVideo can use the streaming
stuff. Maybe a MythVideo plugin dev can clarify.
In the end I still setup NFS, its easy and takes no time.
Mike
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