[mythtv-users] video playback routing

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Dan,

Thursday, March 17, 2016, 9:38:14 PM, you wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 12:36 PM, Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hoi Dan,
>  

>  Thursday, March 17, 2016, 6:09:37 PM, you wrote:
>  
 >> I have a two system setup with a master and a frontend.  The
 >> frontend also has a slave backend that does recording (as the
 >> satellite box is where the frontend is at).  Both boxes have access to a NAS nfs share.
>  
 >> Recently, I noticed that even though I am playing a video on the
 >> master it appears to be routed from the frontend?
>  
>  
>  
 >> myth://Videos@host2/video.iso
>  
 >> Why is this and how can I have either everything streamed from the
 >> backend or played locally?  There is some shuddering and my guess is
 >> it is due to all the traffic back and forth (frontend is on a weak wireless connection).
>  
>  
 >> Dan
>  
>  I guess because the slave did the recording, so it is owned by the
>  slave. A recording record contains the hostname. Possibly if you
>  change this to the hostname of the master... Of cause the path on both
>  machines should be the same. Also then playing back on the slave would
>  then again create a similar situation.
>  Alternatively, you could try adding the path on both machines to the
>  storage group. These records also contain a hostname field. I hope
>  that it then first tries to find the file on the requesting machine.
>  As I understand older version would catch it automatically from the
>  nfs share, but no longer.
>  

> Hi Hika:

> This is what puzzles me.  The master backend has the storage group
> definition and the frontend slave backend does not.  I just checked
> with nload and it is clearly streaming from the frontend to the
> master backend (maybe both) and the frontend wireless connection
> cannot keep up with the network load.


> Is this something that could be fixed?  I have been meaning for a
> while to contribute to mythtv and would not mind fixing this if
> someone can point me to where in the code it would need to be adjusted.


> Dan

Please don't top-post!

I don't know, but I do know that wireless even with SD has to low
bandwidth, unless sometimes when there is direct line of sight. So any
backend, whether master or slave, should be cabled. And preferable at
GB speed.


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  Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com

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