[mythtv-users] New Frontend woes

[Alex Fazzari]

> On 08/24/2009 03:25 AM, Alex Fazzari wrote:
>>>>
>>>> You don't need to mount anything on the front end. Try removing the
>>>> mount and the backend will stream the file to the frontend using
>>>> myth's own protocol.
>>
>> That did it!  Thanks very much for that.  I've remounted the backend
>> directory to a different mount point and it all works fine :)
>>
>> If I could get you a virtual beer I would.
>
> Which probably means that your NFS was mounted without actime=0 .
>
> http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-23.html#ss23.10
>
> "actimeo is used to turn off file attribute caching. Attribute caching for a
> shared media point causes problems; you always want to see the latest state
> of the directory and files"
>
> (So, your NFS was seeing the cached--pre-creation of LiveTV recording
> file--state of the share, so Myth couldn't see/access the LiveTV recording
> file.)
>
> Mike

Interesting.  I was using a samba share, any idea why that might not work?

Is there any way I can get the front end to just ignore a share in
that location?  That would be useful for my xbmc setup so I just copy
my media databases.