[mythtv-users] How to force frontends to play only from master backend?

[Michael T. Dean]

On 03/15/2009 11:23 PM, Nick Rout wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 3:56 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>   
>> Right, Nick.  The mythfrontend setting is:
>>
>> Always stream recordings from the backend
>> Enable this setting if you want MythTV to always stream files from a remote
>> backend instead of directly reading a recording file if it is accessible
>> locally.
>>
>> and it makes the recording host stream the show.
>>
>> There's also the mythtv-setup setting:
>>
>> Master Backend Override
>> If enabled, the master backend will stream and delete files if it finds them
>> in the video directory. Useful if you are using a central storage location,
>> like a NFS share, and your slave backend isn't running.
>>
>> but that would only make the master backend stream the files if you shutdown
>> the recording host.
>>
>> However, if you have a "local" copy of the file available to the
>> frontend--i.e. a copy of the file on a filesystem that's directly accessible
>> by the frontend (which means NFS mounts are "local")--the frontend will read
>> the file directly from the disk (which would mean from NFS).
>>
>> In your test, it didn't do so because you either had enabled the setting,
>> "Always stream recordings from the backend", or your filesystem is using a
>> different structure on the frontend from the backend(s).  So, uncheck that
>> option and/or make the directory structure of the recording directories
>> /exactly/ identical on /all/ hosts (backends and frontends), and all will
>> work.
> Are we likely to see a fix, ie a setting that says "ignore which BE
> recorded the file, stream it from the BE that actually holds it" ?
> (says Nick probably showing his fundamental lack of knowledge of
> myth's internals, not to mention risking a "show us the code|submit a
> ticket" response :)

Why not just do the NFS thing?  Then it plays from the NFS mount 
(meaning whatever host the file exists on).  Properly configured it works.

Mike