[mythtv-users] Watching active recordings stops on remote frontends

[Jarett Creason]

On Feb 7, 2008 10:41 PM, Richard Woelk <richardwoelk at yahoo.ca> wrote:

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> Bruce Richardson wrote:
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> On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 03:38:24PM -0500, Josh White wrote:
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>  My backend is running on Ubuntu 7.10, and I have a frontend running on
> Ubuntu 7.10, a frontend on Mythbuntu, and two frontends running on Mac OS X10.4.  I've never experienced the issue you describe with any of them.
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>  Well, I've seen it happen when I switched from just using one tuner to
> two on the backend.  Switching back to the one tuner fixed it, but
> that's not idea.
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>  Is everyone with this problem using NFS?
> What happens if you force myth to stream the video from the backend? (in
> Mythfrontend, Under setup, settings, TV settings, playback)
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> I have my master backend doing all the recording, and my frontend is also
> the database server and a slave backend
> I don't have NFS set up at all, I just have a Samba server setup on the
> master backend for copying to a windows box for archiving.
> I am running the latest bleeding edge from atrpms (SVN r15447) on Fedora
> 8.
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> I hope this helps.
> - Richard
>


I'm not using NFS, but CIFS (Samba) instead.  I suppose I should try that
force stream option and see if it still happens.  I thought perhaps the
problem was because I'm mounting the recordings directory on the frontends.
I'll try this tonight and see what happens...

Jarett
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