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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=500052618-19052006>I'd like to watch
recorded programs and liveTV on any computer in the house. It looks like
MythStreamTV provides this functionality, but the installation looks
risky.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=500052618-19052006></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=500052618-19052006>So, I looked for an
easier way and found I could watch recorded programs with a samba link launched
with MythWeb. I always keep samba going on my myth machine to easily move
files around anyway.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=500052618-19052006></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=500052618-19052006>This URL provided
the needed hints: <A
href="http://svn.wilsonet.com/projects/mythtvology/ticket/88">http://svn.wilsonet.com/projects/mythtvology/ticket/88</A></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=500052618-19052006></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=500052618-19052006>The above URL
mentioned editing the MythWeb config file
(/var/www/html/mythweb/config/conf.php) and adding a line:</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=500052618-19052006></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=500052618-19052006>
<FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>define
('video_url','myth:\\\Mythbackend\\recordings');</FONT></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
class=500052618-19052006></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=500052618-19052006>This didn't work
with a simple MythWeb launch of Windows Media Player. (But the article
gave instructions for installing other things which I didn't
do.)</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=500052618-19052006></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=500052618-19052006>What does the URL of
the form myth:\\\Mythbackend\recordings\filePath mean? What does the
myth: portion mean?</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=500052618-19052006></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=500052618-19052006>I used <SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">define(‘video
url’, ‘file://media1/recordings’); in the config file and got Windows Media
Player to launch and play a recorded program by clicking on the recorded program
thumbnail in MythWeb. No other changes were needed. (I should
mention that MythTV stores all recordings from my PVR-350 as mpg files rather
than nuv files.)</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=500052618-19052006><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"></SPAN></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=500052618-19052006><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">This
worked so well and was so easy to configure (just one line in one config file
and adding one samba share from the samba gui configurator) I'd recommend it for
RECORDED programs.</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=500052618-19052006><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"></SPAN></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=500052618-19052006><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">So
I tried it on liveTV. I switched to the Live TV section in MythWeb and
clicked on the program I was currently watching. Windows Media Player
launched and played the program from when I started liveTV from mythfrontend UP
TO THE TIME that I had clicked to launch Windows Media Player. At that
point Windows Media Player thought it was done and
stopped.</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=500052618-19052006><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"></SPAN></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=500052618-19052006><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">Are
there any tricks to make Windows Media Player keep going? I'm not sure why
it stops. Possibly samba is sending an end of file (doubtful) or Media
Player is using the file size obtained at initialization. Any
ideas?</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=500052618-19052006><SPAN
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=500052618-19052006><SPAN
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