[mythtv-users] Stream over the internet

[Robert Johnston]

On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 14:49, regis <regis at damongeot.org> wrote:
>
>> Even if you were unable to actually stream the recordings, you could use
>> a tool such as rsync to synchronize the filesystems of the BE and FE box
>> (in non-real-time) and then watch the shows at your remote front end by
>> telling it to pull the show from the filesystem instead of by streaming
>> it over the network.
>
> How do we tell a FE to read shows from the filesystem and not by streaming it
> from the BE?

I believe that if you recreate the folder on the FE's filesystem the
same as the folder on the BE's filesystem, and DON'T enable the
"Always stream" option on the FE, it should try and open the file
using filehandles first, then fall back to streaming if that doesn't
work. It's meant for using NFS streaming over the built-in kind, but I
believe if the file/folder structure is the same (or similar enough)
the FE will access the file just fine. This does require the whole
folder structure to be the same, however. So if recordings on the BE
are in /opt/myth/recordings/tv, the FE will require them to appear in
the folder.
-- 
Robert "Anaerin" Johnston
Sent from: Regina Saskatchewan Canada.