[mythtv-users] video playback routing

[Dan Littlejohn]

On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 3:56 PM, Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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.
>
>
> Tot mails,
>   Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com
>
> "Zonder hoop kun je niet leven
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>
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Hika:

Sorry, my mistake top posting.  It has been a while since I posted to a
newsgroup.

Guess I will dig into it a bit then.  My frontend is also under powered so
the way it works now I could not watch anything while anything else is
going on with the master backend.  It does not make sense to me that
routing inefficiently would be the preferred strategy.

Dan
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