[mythtv-users] Storage groups and samba shares

Paul Bender pebender at san.rr.com
Sun Aug 3 20:36:14 UTC 2008


David Brodbeck wrote:
> Nick Morrott wrote:
>> On 02/08/2008, Paul <mylists at wilsononline.id.au> wrote:
>>   
>>> Can some explain or tell me if I use the new Storage groups and how this would impact
>>>  Windows programs which play mythtv recordings?
>>>
>>>  eg Tapeworm , or MythTVPlayer?
>>>
>>>  I assume since the recordinds a spread over different filesystems / directories then the
>>>  player will need to query the DB to findout where recording is?
>>>     
>> Do these players stream directly from the network share, or via
>> mythbackend accessing and then streaming from the network share
>> transparently?
>>   
> MythTV Player streams from the backend.  I know because my Windows box 
> doesn't mount my video storage filesystem at all.

Actually, it can do either, depending on mythfrontend settings and on 
whether to files are mounted locally in the same location.


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