Johan, I've made the changes and am seeing a long delay before Myth starts on the FE and the mapping doesn't exist on the FE?
The last messages posted are: "Starting portmap daemon: portman" "Mounting remote filesystem" AJM, On 8/6/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Let's say you have BE that you named back and FE is named front, and the > directory is on both machines the same /mnt/video/videos, and the IP of > BE is 192.168.0.2 and FE is 192.168.0.3, the subnet mask is > 255.255.255.0, then you would put on the BE machine into the export file > the following line: > /mnt/video/videos 192.168.0.3/255.255.255.255 # This line tells BE > machine that it can share the folder for the IP address, of course you > can share it with 192.168.0.0 with subnet 255.255.255.0, then all the > machines with an IP of 192.168.0.* can use the share > > in FE you would put the following in the /etc/hosts file: > 192.168.0.2 back # This means that when a program on the FE tries to > find out the IP address of the machine named "back" it will give > 192.168.0.2 as the IP > > in FE you also put the following in the /etc/fstab > back:/mnt/video/videos /mnt/video/videos nfs defaults, bg 0 0 # first > part is the name of BE (and the line we put in hosts will tell the FE > what IP back has)and the directory on the BE (separeted by a : ), next > tells the directory where it should be mounted on the FE, then > filesystem type. > > Now reboot and see if it works ;-) > > > > to mount on xbox, add your backend host with ip & alias to /etc/hosts > > > and then add > > > > > > yourbackendnamealias:/full path/to/exported/directory > > > /created/directory/on/xbox nfs defaults, bg 0 0 > > > > > > my fstab-line would be somthing like: > > > > > > dvb:/mnt/video /mnt/video nfs defaults,bg 0 0 > > > > Just a couple of Q's... I'm still learning Linux but was able to > > makeit through the installs on the FE and BE so I know enough to be > > dangerous... > > > > What is the /etc/exports used for on the BE? currently mine is blank. > > Is that similar to a share? I'm running FC3 on the BE. > > > > Will I only need to mount the /video directory not the /video/videos > > directory? In other words can I use the parent directory will that > > then make all the sub directory's available or do I need to be > > specific? > > > > > > I think I follow the fstab info? If I create the /video/videos > > directory on the xbox and the BE directory is the same /video/videos > > then it would look like - > > > > /mnt/video/videos /mnt/video/videos nfs defaults,bg 0 0 > > > > What does this serve (yourbackendnamealias:/full > path/to/exported/directory)? > > > > Assuming my BE is localhost then would it read: localhost:/full > /video/videos > > > > > > AJM, > > > > > > > > > > On 8/6/05, Johan Kihlström <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > A JM wrote: > > > > > > >"Can you play videos from the command line outside Myth with the same > > > >flags that you use or are you refering to recorded shows you would like > > > >to watch after they have been recorded through the internal viewer? Any > > > >error messages? Crashes? Which player do you use, Xine or mplayer?" > > > > > > > >The video's all exist on the backend and are viewable/playable from > there. > > > > > > > >I do get an error message now that you mention it and I took a look, duh! > > > > > > > >It appears that it can't find the file because it is looking on it's > > > >own drive instead of looking to the backend (/video/videos/? > > > > > > > >It say's "file not found: ' /video/videos/short_game.vob'" > > > > > > > >How can I fix that? > > > > > > > >Also, are you able to run MythGame on our FE? Xmame? > > > > > > > >Thanks, > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >On 8/6/05, Johan Kihlström <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > >>A JM wrote: > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >>>I'm unable to watch videos on my front end (Xbox) but I can see the > > > >>>listings? Can anyone help me out with this? > > > >>> > > > >>>I'm running 0.18 on the FE and BE. > > > >>> > > > >>>Thx > > > >>>_______________________________________________ > > > >>>mythtv-users mailing list > > > >>>[email protected] > > > >>>http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > >>> > > > >>> > > > >>> > > > >>> > > > >>Can you play videos from the command line outside Myth with the same > > > >>flags that you use or are you refering to recorded shows you would like > > > >>to watch after they have been recorded through the internal viewer? Any > > > >>error messages? Crashes? Which player do you use, Xine or mplayer? > > > >> > > > >>Are the video library mounted on the Xbox? What are you running; > > > >>Xebian1.1.x or gentoox? > > > >> > > > >>I'm running an Xbox as a frontend and had no luck with mplayer at all, > > > >>Xine on the other hand worked like a charm for both DVD's and video. I > > > >>couldn't watch video with mplayer at all, I could select one, and the > > > >>screen would freeze and then return to the listing. Turned out that > > > >>mplayer segfaulted for some reason, still unknown, Xine didn't though so > > > >>now I use that. > > > >> > > > >>I'm running Xebian-1.1.4 with 0.18.1 > > > >> > > > >>I hope that this will give you some guidance in your search! > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >>_______________________________________________ > > > >>mythtv-users mailing list > > > >>[email protected] > > > >>http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >_______________________________________________ > > > >mythtv-users mailing list > > > >[email protected] > > > >http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Depends on how well you know linux or UNIX, you have to export your > > > directories (video, music, gallery) in /etc/exports (or similar, I'm > > > running Debian on my backend) and mount them on the xbox by adding them > > > to your fstab, so that they will be mounted on bootup. > > > > > > excerpt from my exports file: > > > /mnt/video 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0 (the IPaddr/mask tells NFS > > > which clients to allow to mount directories) > > > > > > to mount on xbox, add your backend host with ip & alias to /etc/hosts > > > and then add > > > > > > yourbackendnamealias:/full path/to/exported/directory > > > /created/directory/on/xbox nfs defaults, bg 0 0 > > > > > > my fstab-line would be somthing like: > > > > > > dvb:/mnt/video /mnt/video nfs defaults,bg 0 0 > > > > > > I have a working dualboot on my xbox, so I play xbox games when I feel > > > the need, haven't bothered with mythgame or xmame > > > > > > Hope that helps! > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > mythtv-users mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > mythtv-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
