On 11/6/05, Lonnie Borntreger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2005-11-05 at 16:25 -0600, Cymen Vig wrote: > > On 11/5/05, RDMathews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have a perfectly working install of mythtv on a fc4 machine. I decided > > > to put a frontend on another fc4 machine and link them wirelessly. the > > > remote frontend can watch tv, browse the program guide, delete > > > recordings, program to record etc, but it will not allow me to view a > > > prerecorded show. mplayer will not run by itself on either machine, it > > > just freaks out and quits when you try to open it. I can watch the > > > prerec. shows with totem through an nfs share. I have no clue where to > > > even begin to troubleshoot this glitch. any help would be appr. > > > > Is the directory containing the recorded material mounted on the > > frontend via NFS to the same place it is mounted on the backend in the > > file system? > > I'm not sure I understand why NFS, mplayer, and totem even come up for > watching prerecorded shows on a frontend. I put the frontend on a > laptop, told it where the backend was, didn't mount anything, and watch > prerecorded (and live) shows through MythTV itself - streamed across the > network from the backend (just like live tv).
So this is supposed to work? I was testing this with the latest (problematic) KnoppMyth release and found I couldn't watch recorded shows (recorded by Myth) unless I mounted the directory containing the records in the same place as the back end server. For various reasons, I gave up on KnoppMyth after getting a feel for Myth and went to Gentoo with the ebuild and than the SVN so I'll have to try a remote front end again. Thanks for pointing out it *should* work as the documentation is somewhat unclear -- some hints at NFS so I concluded, when it didn't work with KnoppMyth, that it was required. _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
