[mythtv-users] pixelation when using nfs for playback

[Michael T. Dean]

On 04/28/2011 11:36 AM, Steven Adeff wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 12:23 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>>
>> Eventually, we plan to have code to just do the right thing.  In the
>> interim, the recommendation is for frontends that want to use the MythTV
>> protocol to not mount remote recording drives using NFS or to mount them
>> at a different location from the one defined by the recording hosts'
>> Storage Group directory lists.
> Gotcha!
> How will you know what "the right thing" to do is?

It will use the most-direct path for streaming the file.  Each backend 
and frontend will know which file systems are local and which are 
remote, and the frontend will play directly from local drives, use 
mythproto streaming from a backend with local drives (even if that 
backend is different from the recording backend), and failing that, use 
NFS from the frontend, or NFS from the backend, if necessary.

Mike