[mythtv-users] Suggestions for mounting multiple drives where FEs use mplayer for MP4s

[Mark Perkins]

> On 7 Apr 2014, at 6:43 am, "Craig Huff" <huffcslists at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I am in the process of reconfiguring my MythTV world, so I thought it
> a good time to address the following issue:
> 
> I currently have this kind of mountpoint setup:
> /dev/sdb1  /video1
> /dev/sdc1  /video2
> ...
> 
> and all the /video* mountpoints have recordings subdirectories
> (/video*/recordings) that are listed in the default storage group in
> the backend setup.
> 
> In order to make recordings (*.mpg and *.mp4) accessible on FEs where
> mplayer/smplayer are used for *.mp4s, I had been thinking of moving
> the mountpoints under a common parent like this:
> 
> /dev/sdb1 /var/lib/mythtv/recordings/video1
> /dev/sdc1 /var/lib/mythtv/recordings/video2
> ...
> 
> I suspect this isn't the right thing to do because then I get into
> trouble with the other subdirectories on some of the drives --
> /video*/posters, /video*/music, etc.
> 
> I made a search through the MythTV wiki, and either there aren't any
> suggestions there or I didn't try the magic search string and/or find
> the right link to follow regarding how to deal with this kind of
> situation.
> 
> I hope this isn't akin to asking what the best linux distro is ;-),
> but are there any standard recommendations for how to address this?
> 
> --
> Craig.
> _______________________________________________
Sorry, but I couldn't really follow what the problem is. But the first mount point setup looks correct, though I assume the second would work provided you still retain the recordings folder under video*. I just don't understand what the second set of mount points does that the first doesn't.

Re the mplayer part, am I to understand that you have configured mplayer/smplayer as an external player in myth but it doesn't work?