<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">
> My videos directory is an SMB share and it is intentionally read-only to my<br>
> various media servers. I noticed that during Mythtv-setup, Myth complained<br>
> that it couldn't write to this directory. Can somebody tell me what Myth<br>
> needs to write to in here?<br>
><br>
> Additionally I'm confused about the line in the wiki that says "External<br>
> Video Players (mplayer, xine, VLC) will not work with videos hosted on an<br>
> SG." - Does Myth actually modify the files in some way? This would be<br>
> catastrophic to me, as my videos are accessed by many different<br>
> applications.<br>
<br>
</div></div>mplayer etc does not know how to play a myth:// url and therefore<br>
cannot access the url that mthvideo hands off to the player. The file<br>
is unchanged and you can still acess it outside myth via whatever<br>
protocol works with your player - eg a mount over cifs.<br>
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br></div></div></blockquote><div>I believe that there have been several attempts at creating a fuse virtual file system around the myth:// protocol, which would allow you to mount your storage groups as you would any other drive... however I don't think any of them are ready for prime time.</div>
<div><br></div><div>With many players supporting upnp and mythtv's builtin upnp server, I find that its rare that I need filesystem level access to my storage. </div></div>