[mythtv-users] MythWeb: Whatta Feature

Mercury Morris mercury.morris at gmail.com
Thu Oct 14 21:50:00 UTC 2004


Being quite frustrated with trial-and-error getting
programs recorded from Composite 0 and Tuner 0,
I started considering just giving up.  My thoughts
had turned to shelving all the new hardware and
buying a Telly - maybe even a Tivo (Oh - I shudder).

But, when failure is all you've got, that's the time to
turn in a new direction.  So, I tried to get MythWeb going.
Following the MythTV HOWTO and Jarod's Fedora HOWTO,
I set a password in Apache (I guess), and started up httpd.

>From another machine, I tried http://192.168.1.3/mythweb/
and WOW!  What a nice tool MythWeb is.  Now, with MythWeb
working, I just might go back into the trial-and-error cave for
some more exploring.

The one place in getting MythWeb up and running where I couldn't
figure out what to change was  conf.php.  Specifically, where a sym-link
is mentioned for telling where the video recordings are stored. 
If you have made such a sym-link (and I DO know what a sym-link is),
in which directory is the sym-link supposed to be defined?

Per Jarod's HOWTO, I created a separate partition for all video
and it is mounted on /video.  /video has two directories, recordings
and buffer.

Also, I'm wondering if it's possible to play a recorded program on the
machine from where I entered http://192.168.1.3/mythweb/.  
The recorded programs showed up on the webpage, and the thumbnails
are clickable.  Do you play recorded programs this way?  if so, how?

Thanks for any hints you might have.


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