Ok thanks, that makes sense.
On 7/9/05, Michael T. Dean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alex Brekken wrote: > > >On 7/9/05, Chad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>I just wanted to chime in and say that one does need NFS mounts IF > >>they are using mythvideo/mythmusic. I chose a central location for > >>these files, and they are a subdir of my existing MythTV recordings > >>directory, which is universally /mnt/MythTV. So, on my MBE I create a > >>directory /mnt/MythTV/videos and NFS export ONLY this directory to the > >>frontends. That way the recordings are still held locally in > >>/mnt/MythTV, but the NFS mount directory /mnt/MythTV/videos is > >>seamless. > >> > >> > >Chad, so what you're saying is that if you want to listen to music it > >needs to be stored on an NFS mount (unless it's on a local disk)? So > >in other words, if I have a master-backend machine that sits in the > >basement with all the tuner cards and storage, and then a lightweight > >frontend in my living room, if I want to listen to music through that > >frontend the music needs to be sitting on an NFS mount in the backend? > > > > > Well, the music could be on the frontend's disk--in which case there's > no need for an NFS mount--however, in that case, you wouldn't be able to > play that music on any other frontend. > > Backend data (TV recordings) are made available by Myth. Frontend data > (i.e. music, videos, images, games, etc.--basically all the data used > for plugins) are not made available. If you want it available on all > frontends, you must use some network file system (NFS, Samba, etc.) to > make the data available. > > Mike > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users