On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 08:01:43PM +0100, Franco wrote: > How should I set up things so that I can play all my video, music, etc. > from all the frontends? I believe the answer is "NFS", but should I setup > things so that the paths look the same from every machine?
> I see that if I try to browse the videos from a frontend, I can see all > the video "covers" I had setup in the backend database, but when I try > to play them, I get a "file not found" (or similar) error. The thumbs and movies are in different directories. Deleting a movie from the drive doesn't remove it from the database, so it will continue to appear (with image) until you re-scan your media directory from the setup page. It will prompt for permission to remove the missing movie from the database. In any case, I think your original speculation is correct and MythTV expects all front-ends to use the same directory paths for the media. That's easily accomplished, and probably a good idea anyway as having a common configuration makes maintaining (or adding) machines easier. > And how do I should setup things, as I have my videos, music, etc., > split among the disks of the various machines? The directory you specify is deep-scanned, so it's possible to use multiple nfs mounts to aggregate various machines under that directory. For example, if box1 exports /home/franco/videos and box2 exports /var/lib/movies, you could mount them as /multimedia/movies/box1 and /multimedia/movies/box2 and then tell Myth that the videos are in /multimedia/movies. You could then aggregate your mp3s under /multimedia/music, thumbs under /multimedia/thumbs, etc. I would suggest using the nfs auto-mounter with the "ghost" option so that the mountpoints will be visible. That way, when Myth isn't playing a movie the nfs share will be unmounted, but when Myth scans the video directory it will know to check both box1 and box2 (which will cause them to automatically mount). > Last question: the only thing I found mentioned in the FAQ, was the > "myth://" URL... do I need to use that and where do I put it? You can probably ignore it. That url is used in MythWeb so that certain clients (which may not even exist yet) can access recordings via the web browser. -- Joke template: Three guys walk into a bar. One of them is a wee bit stupid, and the whole scene unfolds with a tedious inevitability.
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