[mythtv-users] Migrating recordings from SBE to MBE

[Michael Watson]

On 19/05/2014 2:05 PM, Raymond Wagner wrote:
> On 5/18/2014 7:54 PM, Michael Watson wrote:
>> If the MBE can find the file in one of its storage group, it will 
>> play it without issue.  No requirement to create a new storage group, 
>> just add the path to the drive to an existing storage group.
>
> The backend doesn't play content, the frontend plays content.  The 
> frontend will search among storage group paths locally to see if it 
> can pull the recording from the local filesystem.  If it cannot, it 
> will try to connect to the backend on record and pull it from there, 
> and fail.
But the backend does stream it.
Ahh, a reason why mounting via NFS is better than myth protocol.