[mythtv-users] Connecting Mythtv Leanfront to a VM running mythtv-backend?

[Tom Bishop]

On Mon, Jul 25, 2022 at 8:25 AM James Abernathy <jfabernathy at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> On Mon, Jul 25, 2022 at 9:05 AM Tom Bishop <bishoptf at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Mon, Jul 25, 2022, 7:57 AM James Abernathy <jfabernathy at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
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>>> First this is not critical, but I discovered it during testing some
>>> different backend configurations using a VM.  I got my backend working
>>> under libvirt/kvm and I could even run the frontend but the video quality
>>> was a little jerky, so I wanted to test it with a remote frontend to see if
>>> this was purely a lack of video acceleration under the VM.  So I set up my
>>> Leanfront on my FIreTV 4K to point to the backend running on the VM.  BTW,
>>> I disabled the firewalld on the VM so that wouldn't trip me up.
>>>
>>> When I changed the backend IP on Leanfront  and refreshed I saw the one
>>> recording I had, but I could not play it.  After a few seconds of spinning
>>> circles, I got an error message:
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>>> "Play Failed. Unable to obtain file length."
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>>> If I select continue, I get another error:
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>>> Playback Failed. Error Loading data from the MediaSource. Source error.
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>>> This was all using Status Port 6744.  Which is what I use for Leanfront
>>> with my Production backend. But I get the same error with Port 6544.
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>>> My PC running the VM has a Network Bridge setup so all VMs are on the
>>> same subnet as my HDHR tuners and all my FIreTV 4k sticks.
>>>
>>> Any idea why this isn't working?
>>>
>>> Jim A
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>>> That is odd, running the frontend on the vm would make sense in regards
>> to video acceleration etc but I have run my backend forever as a kvm vm and
>> I have never had any issues with it working properly soni assume there is
>> something else at play, should work just fine.
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> That's kind of what I thought. I just used Kodi on a PC and set its IP to
> match the VM's IP and It works great and confirms that my Frontend on the
> VM being jerky is a VM lack of Video acceleration issue.  Kodi plays what
> the backend on the VM recorded very well.
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> Jim A
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There is a pvr plugin for mythtv on kodi, that is what I use if you want to
try to play with it from a myth perspective. I've only used kodi to connect
to mythtv but it really shouldn't matter from a frontend perspective.
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