Angel Gabriel wrote:
On 11/14/05, Tom Lichti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Angel Gabriel wrote:
I have 5 machines avalible to me - 2 macs, both G5 flat screens..
*real sexy* with the ability to both plug into my nice big fat PA
system... *yes, I have a PA system, because I'm a DJ, and I like to
hear real bass when watching TV* for sound, and look good from a
distance playing DVD's - and three PC's all with 14G hard drives, and
lots of my TV shows on them.
Definitely possible, I'm doing it now. But, you could just use NFS and
mount the remote filesystems all onto one master backend. It would
probably be a bit easier that way, in terms of administration (just need
NFS on the slaves, as opposed to many MythTV backends) and you only have
to set it up once. Then the master just streams the files out to the
clients. I personally have a master backend, a slave backend, and a
separate NFS server that serves just videos, and any client can watch
the videos.
Tom
I will run front ends on the macs and my xbox.
The thing is I don't have all my recordings on one machine - they are
spread across three machines. And I want to keep diffrent material on
each machine - one for TV series, one for films, and one for err...
stuff that hasn't come out yet! lol
I realize that. What I proposed is to export the filesystems on each of
the 3 machines that have content, and then mount them onto the master
backend. For instance, my master BE has 120GB of local disk that I use
for TV recording, and I have an NFS server with 250GB of RAID5 disk that
stores movies, videos, DVD images, etc. I mount the NFS disk in the
appropriate place, and now I can share that to the front ends. What you
could have is something like the following mountpoints on the master BE:
/myth/video/machine1
/myth/video/machine2
/myth/video/machine3
and configure the master BE to have /myth/video as the Video path in the
MythTV setup. Then it will just recursively find all videos on the three
nfs servers.
Make sense?
Tom
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