Comments inline... >>> "T. Waldren" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2/14/2005 11:53:50 AM >>>
<snip> >Continuing my trend of asking users group, instead of 'seaching >via google' is there a good document explaining the tricks, etc for >building a myth system with a seperate backend and frontend? Quite easy. And the backend should still be an occasionaly frontend (IMHO). The docs are at the mythtv site, Jarod's guide, or knoppmyth. >A couple more questions. Should we wait until all the issues >that seem to be coming up with .17 on this list are gone (say >a couple of weeks) or is it fairly stable and these are just >oddities? Your call. Sounds like things are settling down - some of them even seem to be self-inflicted. >From people's experience, does a standard ethernet network >(10/100mbps network) offer enough thoughput to run two >playback only frontends connecting to one recording only >backend, without any problems? I'm not sure if this is possible. I'm not sure what you mean by "one recording only backend". If you mean one stream to two frontends at the same time, it may be with .17, it was not with .16. If you mean a recording only backend as in it doesn't do any frontend stuff, a 10/100 switched network should be fine. A 10/100 shared network may have too many collisions. >And the last one (I can think of at this time). How do >you setup multiple drives are the place for mythtv to >store files, or can this even be done? For instance, >if I have two 80 gig drives, can I make that into one >160 gig space for mythtv to store recordings? Do yourself a favor and get a 20gb drive for the system. Then use LVM 2 and create one volume out of the two 80 gb drives and dedicate that completely to the videos. Use NFS to export them and mount both frontends as nfs shares back there. As a convenience, create a symbolic link on the backend to the exact same place that you are mounting the file systems on the frontends, that way everybody is looking at the same data from the same vantage point. In other words, make sure your backend can see the videos from both the "native" location as well as the "mounted" location. For example: Backend: Recorded shows: /video/recorded (symlinked to /mnt/recorded) Videos: /video/prerecorded (symlinked to /mnt/prerecorded) Frontend: Recorded shows: /mnt/recorded Videos: /mnt/prerecorded In the setup, enter the exact same thing (/mnt/<whatever>) on all machines. Even the backend where the videos live. Belive me, it works fine not entering the "real" location. This way, your buddy still has the option to fire up the frontend process on his backend machine and watch anything he wants just like a frontend. It's not all that taxing, and he can use the monitor already connected to the machine for his viewing pleasure. It's kinda grainy, but not so much that you'd think the picture was bad. And it makes troubleshooting a whole lot easier if necessary. HTH! Paul Thanks Terrence
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