On Fri, January 9, 2009 9:24 am, Matthew Job wrote: > >> Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 14:06:35 +0000 >> From: a...@dvbstreamer.org >> To: freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] freevo 1.8.3 dvbstreamer record problems >> >> On Thu, January 8, 2009 1:31 pm, Matthew Job wrote: >> <snip> >> >> Yes and this is exactly what I do. I have a PC in the loft, closest >> to >> >> the >> >> aerial, which has 2 DVB cards in 1 for recording 1 for viewing and >> then >> >> run the recordserver on this recording to a local disk. The frontend >> >> downstairs then streams TV from the PC in the loft and plays >> recording >> >> from a NFS share also from the PC in the loft. Works a treat and >> means I >> >> can turn off/upgrade the downstairs PC with out chance of pain being >> >> inflicted on me by my wife/kids for recordings being missed :-) >> >> >> >> >> > Thats pretty much the setup i was going for >> > >> > I have setup Freevo recordserver on computer 1 and pointed the >> > recordserver variable in local_config on computer 2 at computer 1 >>
<snip> > > just 2 more questins if thats ok > > 1. I have only got 1 dvb card at them moment. > In your setup how have you configured the freevo directories so that > computer 1 running the main process can see the recording lock file on > computer 2 so you cant watch tv while recording? > I've not had to deal with this as I'm using 2 card, but I think if you shared your ~/.freevo directory this would probably solve the problem and also mean you didn't need to try and keep you local_conf.py in sync on both PCs as it would be the same file. > 2. On the note of having a remote computer to handle the recordserver, > encoding server etc. What settings do you need to put in the local_config > to setup a remote encoding server > > I have put ENCODINGSERVER_IP = computer2 in the local_config and started > the encoding server on computer2 but whenever i attempt to reencode > anything I get the message that the encoding server is not running. Have you started the encoding server? You need to start this like the recordserver i.e. freevo encodingserver start Cheers Adam ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It is the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Xq1LFB _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
