[mythtv-users] remote jobs

[Brad DerManouelian]

On Mar 17, 2008, at 12:42 PM, Peter Siegel wrote:

>> I did a google search on that error and came up with some interesting
>> stuff like:
>> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/246213
>
>> Do you have your recording directories network-mounted on your
>> frontend/slave backend machine and in the same path as your master
>> backend?
> No i don't have the storage dir mounted on the frontend do i have to  
> do this?
>
> Peter

I'll quote the thread I linked to above:

---
for some reason GetPlaybackURL couldn't find the file locally on the  
backend it was
running on.

In order to transcode, mythtranscode must have direct access to the  
recording
file because it needs write access to the directory that file is in.

Which backend originally recorded these files and can the master (or  
whoever
is running mythtranscode) access the files?
---

The easiest way I've found to make sure the files are locally  
accessible is by NFS mounting the recording directories to the same  
path on all my backends (master backend mounted on each slave, each  
slave mounted on each other slave plus the master backend). It's  
overkill, but I've never run into this sort of problem. ;)

-Brad