[mythtv-users] New install - CentOS, Connectivity issues

Richard Shaw hobbes1069 at gmail.com
Mon Aug 7 20:42:07 UTC 2017


On Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 3:36 PM, Ashu Desai <ashu.desai at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 3:08 PM, Richard Shaw <hobbes1069 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 2:31 PM, Ashu Desai <ashu.desai at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On the backend (brand new VM) - i have added videos via NFS (created
>>> video folder and shared my existing 0.27 myth backend video folder)
>>>
>>> I changed the permission of this new backend Video folder by:
>>>
>>> * chmod g+w /usr/local/media/videos/*
>>>
>>> Issue:
>>>
>>> When i have videos directly on my drive - plays fine.
>>>
>>> Add videos via NFS, and it seems FE can't talk to BE half the time
>>>
>>
>> I think you're overthinking it... mythtv can stream videos just like
>> recordings... Just put the files in /var/lib/mythvideo on the backend and
>> any frontend can see them after you do a refresh from the videos menu (menu
>> button, scan for changes or something like that). No NFS needed.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Richard
>>
>
>
> Hi Richard
> When you say put the videos under /var/lib/mythvideo - how do you mean?
>
> 0.28 BE - 172.16.10.54
> 0.27 BE - 172.168.10.55
> 0.28 FE - 172.16.10.58
>
> Currently, there is nothing under /var/lib/mythvideo on the new BE.
>
> Videos currently are on the 0.27 BE - without NFS, how do I put files on
> the new BE (short of detaching the disks from the old BE and adding them on
> the new system)?
>

I thought you were trying to play videos on the FE via NFS, sorry if I got
that confused. If you just need to transfer them I would use scp or rsync...

Richard
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