<div dir="ltr"><h3>Happy Saturday Night!<br></h3><h3><font style="font-weight: normal;" size="2">I'm trying to use mytharchive to create a DVD copy of an episode of a show so my wife can play it in her Classroom. I'm running into trouble, however, because I have my system setup with a dedicated backend (which stores all the recordings locally), and several remote frontends. It seems that mytharchive needa a 'local' copy of the file to process it, but that's not possible with my setup (I thought of temporarily installing mythfrontend on the backend server, but I don't have a dvd burner on that machine, so I'm stuck there too). I looked it up in the wiki, and it reccommends the following:</font><br>
</h3><h3><i>"MythArchive reports that files are not available locally</i></h3>
<p><i>MythTV usually streams video if you have a separate frontend and
backend. MythArchive cannot use streamed video: it needs to be able to
access the file locally.
This can be accomplished by exporting the directory containing your
recordings via <a href="http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/NFS" title="NFS">NFS</a> and then adding the mountpoint to the frontend's <a href="http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Storage_Groups" title="Storage Groups">Storage Group</a>."</i></p>
<p>So now my problem lies in how do I create a "frontend storage group" that I can point my frontend to. I have no problem with NFS, and I have mapped the "recordings" folder to a local folder on my frontend machine but I'm not sure how to create a "frontend storage group" specifically. I konw how to create a storage group for the backend, but not for the frontend. So how can I trick mytharchive into thinking my recordings folder is on the local machine? I suppose I could create a storage group for the backend that would make the backend connect via NFS to the share on my frontend (which is actually an NFS share from a physical drive on the Backend) but that seems like it could create a black hole or something worse (and seems incredibly hoaky besides). <br>
</p><p>Has anyone else out there managed to use mytharchve to make a DVD from a recording file that is stored on a remote backend? Is there any non-stupid way of doing it that doesn't involve major hacking? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. <br>
</p><p>Thanks,</p><p>Josh<br></p></div>