On Monday 09 January 2006 17:12, David Abrahams wrote: > Brad DerManouelian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Jan 8, 2006, at 6:35 PM, David Abrahams wrote: > >> I have an existing video recording in a format already supported by > >> MythTV playback. How can I add it to my backend's list of recordings? > >> > >> Thanks in advance, > >> Dave > > > > Drop it in your mythvideo directory and go to Utilities/Setup>Video > > Manager (assuming you are auto-scanning your videos directory). It > > will scan the folder and add it to your videos list. > > I don't think the video manager is what I want. First of all, it's > apparently only designed for using an external player, not for playing > within the MythTV frontend. Secondly, the video manager seems > completely messed up when you are running multiple frontends, since > they are recorded in the global backend database but only referenced > relative to the frontend's local filesystem.
For multiple frontend machines, use a common fileserver for everywhere. Isaac _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
