[mythtv-users] Samba for LiveTV?

[Phill Edwards]

> This worked so well and was so easy to configure (just one line in one
> config file and adding one samba share from the samba gui configurator) I'd
> recommend it for RECORDED programs.
>
> So I tried it on liveTV.  I switched to the Live TV section in MythWeb and
> clicked on the program I was currently watching.  Windows Media Player
> launched and played the program from when I started liveTV from mythfrontend
> UP TO THE TIME that I had clicked to launch Windows Media Player.  At that
> point Windows Media Player thought it was done and stopped.
>
> Are there any tricks to make Windows Media Player keep going?  I'm not sure
> why it stops.  Possibly samba is sending an end of file (doubtful) or Media
> Player is using the file size obtained at initialization.  Any ideas?

My guess is that this happens because you're not actually streaming in
this example. Media Player is opening the file as it is at the point
in time you start to play it - there's no more contents of that file
being streamed to it. So if it's 10 mins old when you start to play
it, then you'll only get 10 minutes of playback. To stream you have to
have a streaming server, which samba is not.

Rgeards,
Phill