[mythtv] Ticket #4270: MythTV on Windows (with MinGW)

Kevin Kuphal kuphal at dls.net
Sat Dec 29 20:41:57 UTC 2007


On Dec 29, 2007 2:37 PM, Andrei Tanas <andrei at tanas.ca> wrote:

> > I don't know, a lot of people would be thrilled to be able to use the
> > extra horsepower in their Windows machines to run jobs from the
> > JobQueue. :)  Commercial flagging should work out of the box I would
> > think since it can stream the file remotely, mythtranscode will
> > probably have some issues since it needs direct read/write access to
> > the recording directory and files.
>
> Speaking of which: does somebody want to take a look at how Myth handles
> file paths? If under Linux a network share can be mounted so it's
> accessible
> using the same path (like /home/mythtv/videos), it's not possible to do so
> with Windows. This kind of messes things up, since MythVideo shares the
> same
> configurations between all machines in one system.
> Also, ':' is being treated as a separator, which makes it impossible to
> use
> drive letters (which, coincidentally, is needed to use network shares).


Network shares can use UNC paths (\\servername\share<file://servername/share>)
rather than drive letters.

Kevin
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