[mythtv-users] Confused about front-end configuration for videos

[Kevin Kuphal]

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com>wrote:

> On 2/16/2011 12:20, 1.41421 at gmail.com wrote:
> > I have an instance of the MythTV front-end in a Linux box A, and
> > another in separate Linux box B. In B I have the master back-end,
> > together with all the external video material. That is, all the
> > external video material lives in hard drives physically attached to B.
> > By "external video material" I mean video material that has not been
> > recorded with MythTV - mostly DVDs that I have ripped to my hard drives.
>
> Backend B should have the storage folders defined in the Videos storage
> group in mythtv-setup.  Backend B will then be able to stream content to
> frontend A and future frontend C without any special configuration on
> either frontends.
>

Also, if you have used Myth prior to storage groups, I would suggest
deleting all metadata/videos from the frontend config and removing any
"video paths" configured so that it loads only the Storage Group
configuration from the backend and not any leftover "local" information

Kevin
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