[mythtv-users] mythvideo

[Michael T. Dean]

On 01/20/06 09:35, Piers Kittel wrote:

>I've got the following systems:
>
>a MythTV backend without a frontend
>a few MythTV frontends
>a server containing some files and several non MythTV videos.
>
>Currently, if I want to watch the movies on the frontends, I usually 
>mount the server's hard drive via NFS and use something like mplayer to 
>watch it.  What would be much better would be that I mount the server's 
>hard drive on the backend directly and leave it like that, and access 
>the videos on all frontends via MythTV without mounting the videos- is 
>that possible using something like MythVideo or am I dreaming?
>  
>
MythVideo is a frontend-only plugin, and, therefore, streaming videos 
from the backend is impossible.  You need to mount a directory 
containing the videos such that it's accessible on the frontends (and 
you should use the same path on all frontends).

>Or is it best just to mount the server drive automatically on bootup on 
>all frontends and point MythVideo at that?
>  
>
Yes.

Mike