[mythtv-users] Mythdora 4 Frontend Database Woes / Network Lag

Jonathan Seawright opustormy at gmail.com
Tue Jul 22 01:54:39 UTC 2008


On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 8:00 PM, Brad DerManouelian <myth at dermanouelian.com>
wrote:

> On Jul 21, 2008, at 5:35 PM, Jonathan Seawright wrote:
>
> > Hey all,
> >
> > I'm having issues with my combined Backend/Frontend and my Frontend.
> > They are running on two separate TVs, and require the settings to be
> > different. However, It appears that the settings (such as GUI
> > Offset) are shared across the myth databases, and so I'm not sure
> > how to achieve different settings on the two Frontends.
>
> You need to use unique identifiers for each of your frontends. This is
> one of the first options in the frontend settings.
>
> > In addittion, is a Megabit (100/10) network enough to stream HD
> > video from my backend to my frontend? I'm using samba and although
> > the video looks gorgeous, it is rather choppy with a lag spike every
> > 3/4 seconds or so.
> >
> > Thanks!
>
> Yes, 100 Megabit is fast enough for 2 video HD streams. You can adjust
> your samba settings to use larger packets or better yet - stop using
> samba. I'm not sure why you're using it. Videos will stream to the
> frontend without any such sharing of video directories.


Okay, What is the best way to allow access to the video?
Myth on my frontend would complain about not being able to find the videos,
so I mounted the directory as /storage like it is on the main mythtv box. I
get the feeling that sharing video is a setting somewhere in the setup?

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