[mythtv-users] Re: remote frontend and mtd

brian boyle homepvr at gmail.com
Sun Nov 6 17:06:44 EST 2005


On 9/18/05, Geo <geodiaz_79 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> The reason we got no jobs was both the daemon not loading and the dvd was
> not mounting properly. We remarked out (put a # in front of /dev/hdb in our
> case) the dvd roms mount in fstab and this seemed to fix that issue. Another
> big one was getting the daemon to run at boot. We fixed this by creating a
> script in /home/mythtv/.kde/Autostart (we called it runmtd.sh). We just
> used one command line, here is the script we wrote:
>
>  #! /bin/sh
>
> #script to launch transcode daemon at startup
>
>  kdesu -u -root -c /user/bin/mtd -d
>
> exit
>
>  This will run mtd as a daemon with root permissions. The issue we have
> now is permission to write to the nfs mount as a regular user (it will only
> let mythtv write to the mount ONLY if it is launched as root), we have not
> figured that one out yet. Seems to be something in the NFS permissions on
> the backend.
>
>   Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 11:37:10 -0400
> From: brian boyle <homepvr at gmail.com<http://us.f302.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=homepvr@gmail.com&YY=76138&order=down&sort=date&pos=0&view=a&head=b>
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> Subject: [mythtv-users] remote frontend and mtd
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>
> Hey folks.
>
> I have looked in the archives but the search strings i tried sis not
> reveal
> anything useful. i have a remote frontend in my living room and the
> backend
> is in the basement. I want to be able to rip dvds into my movie archive
> but
> when i run the MTD daemon on the backend or the frontend (i have tried
> both
> and various combos), the frontend says there is "no jobs"
>
> hope i have provided enough info for you folks to know what i am
> talking
> about.
>
> Thanks folks.
>
> Brian
>
>
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> so do i run MTD on the frontend machine and if so how does it know where
> to put everything, or do i run it on the backend and again if so how does
> the front end know to speak to the backend regarding transcoding?


sorry if i am just missing something. i can't get this to work at all.

B.
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