[mythtv-users] 0.25 - livetv fails when starting on a specificchannel

[Scott and Nicole Harris]

>> > That's interesting.  I have one FE that will not play live TV without
>> > AlwaysStreamFiles turned ON (it just hangs at a blank screen for ~10
>> > seconds, then the "error opening jumpfile") and have never figured out why.
>> 
>> Almost definitely NFS misconfiguration, as Daniel mentioned.  
>> http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-23.html#ss23.8 (specifically the 
>> actimeo option).
>> 
>> > About the only thing I can think of is this FE is also a SBE (though that is
>> > now turned off in favor of mythjobqueue) and it has identical folders
>> > mounted to the the MBE to allow it to do transcodes.  Maybe something to do
>> > with that?
>> >
>> > It's also a little concerning that the setting itself has been removed from
>> > Myth settings screens (I believe it was gone in 0.24 too,but don't quote me
>> > on that), but it still seems to have a pretty big impact.
>> 
>> The setting was removed because it's a broken setting that was used to 
>> work around system misconfiguration.
>> 
>> If you want mythbackend to stream files, you should ensure the file 
>> system on which those files exist is not mounted locally.  If you want 
>> mythfrontend to read files "locally", you should ensure the file system 
>> on which those files exist is mounted locally.
>> 
>> Or, put another way, if you want to use NFS, use NFS.  If not, don't.
>>
> There is absolutely no reason to mount a file system locally using NFS 
> if you don't have mythfrontend reading files for playback over NFS.
How about to allow that machine to do transcode jobs that it didn't record via mythjobqueue?  Which is why I have them mounted locally.
> 
> If you think there's a reason, then there's some other problem with your 
> configuration that you're not fixing that make you think so.  And, when 
> fixed, your system will work properly without having to force a value 
> for the setting.

There's a way to configure a remote machine to do transcodes of jobs it didn't record without mounting the file system locally? 		 	   		  
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