[mythtv-users] video playback routing
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blm-ubunet at slingshot.co.nz
Fri Mar 18 01:45:05 UTC 2016
On Thu, 2016-03-17 at 16:49 -0500, Dan Littlejohn wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 3:56 PM, Hika van den Hoven
> <hikavdh at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hoi Dan,
>
> Thursday, March 17, 2016, 9:38:14 PM, you wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 12:36 PM, Hika van den Hoven
> <hikavdh at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hoi Dan,
> >
>
> > Thursday, March 17, 2016, 6:09:37 PM, you wrote:
> >
> >> I have a two system setup with a master and a frontend.
> The
> >> frontend also has a slave backend that does recording (as
> the
> >> satellite box is where the frontend is at). Both boxes
> have access to a NAS nfs share.
> >
> >> Recently, I noticed that even though I am playing a video
> on the
> >> master it appears to be routed from the frontend?
> >
> >
> >
> >> myth://Videos@host2/video.iso
> >
> >> Why is this and how can I have either everything streamed
> from the
> >> backend or played locally? There is some shuddering and
> my guess is
> >> it is due to all the traffic back and forth (frontend is
> on a weak wireless connection).
> >
> >
> >> Dan
> >
> > I guess because the slave did the recording, so it is owned
> by the
> > slave. A recording record contains the hostname. Possibly
> if you
> > change this to the hostname of the master... Of cause the
> path on both
> > machines should be the same. Also then playing back on the
> slave would
> > then again create a similar situation.
> > Alternatively, you could try adding the path on both
> machines to the
> > storage group. These records also contain a hostname field.
> I hope
> > that it then first tries to find the file on the requesting
> machine.
> > As I understand older version would catch it automatically
> from the
> > nfs share, but no longer.
> >
>
> > Hi Hika:
>
> > This is what puzzles me. The master backend has the storage
> group
> > definition and the frontend slave backend does not. I just
> checked
> > with nload and it is clearly streaming from the frontend to
> the
> > master backend (maybe both) and the frontend wireless
> connection
> > cannot keep up with the network load.
>
>
> > Is this something that could be fixed? I have been meaning
> for a
> > while to contribute to mythtv and would not mind fixing this
> if
> > someone can point me to where in the code it would need to
> be adjusted.
>
>
> > Dan
>
>
> Please don't top-post!
>
> I don't know, but I do know that wireless even with SD has to
> low
> bandwidth, unless sometimes when there is direct line of
> sight. So any
> backend, whether master or slave, should be cabled. And
> preferable at
> GB speed.
>
>
> Tot mails,
> Hika mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com
>
> "Zonder hoop kun je niet leven
> Zonder leven is er geen hoop
> Het eeuwige dilemma
> Zeker als je hoop moet vernietigen om te kunnen overleven!"
>
> De lerende Mens
>
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>
>
> Hika:
>
>
> Sorry, my mistake top posting. It has been a while since I posted to
> a newsgroup.
>
>
> Guess I will dig into it a bit then. My frontend is also under
> powered so the way it works now I could not watch anything while
> anything else is going on with the master backend. It does not make
> sense to me that routing inefficiently would be the preferred
> strategy.
>
>
> Dan
>
https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Storage_Groups#Multiple_Backends
Example 2
Master Backend override.
Sounds like your issue?
https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Setup_General#Miscellaneous_Settings
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