[mythtv-users] 0.22 && Storage Groups

[Bill Williamson]

On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 2:48 AM, Robert
McNamara<robert.mcnamara at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 8:43 AM, Nasa<nasa01 at comcast.net> wrote:
>> No comments were made disputting this conclusion -- was this assertion correct or has it changed?
>> If it is correct and hasn't changed, I really don't understand(what a surprise, told you I was daft) what you were getting at with your reply.
>
> We are dealing with (and you originally quoted a topic about) Video
> Storage Groups, not recording ones.  The advantages generally hold
> true, but some of the assumptions about how it should work need to be
> considered differently for videos.  Namely, do we go all Storage
> Groups for videos?  Do we allow a local mount as well?  If so, how do
> we handle local media that is not part of a Storage Group?  These are
> unanswered questions and we are trying to figure out how best to make
> this work.  So, in short, take this as a "we're trying to make Video
> Storage Groups work in a friendly way, and trying to figure out the
> most user-friendly way of presenting that information."
>
> It's not a given that Video Storage Groups will be enabled for .22,
> there's still a *lot* of work to be done for them.  But if they are,
> there are open questions that need to be figured out before then.


It'd be really nice if part of the solution was a way to plug in a USB
hard drive to a frontend and play media off of it.  Its a large
function that most other media boxes do that myth doesn't (as far as I
can make it work).