On 01/20/06 09:35, Piers Kittel wrote: >I've got the following systems: > >a MythTV backend without a frontend >a few MythTV frontends >a server containing some files and several non MythTV videos. > >Currently, if I want to watch the movies on the frontends, I usually >mount the server's hard drive via NFS and use something like mplayer to >watch it. What would be much better would be that I mount the server's >hard drive on the backend directly and leave it like that, and access >the videos on all frontends via MythTV without mounting the videos- is >that possible using something like MythVideo or am I dreaming? > > MythVideo is a frontend-only plugin, and, therefore, streaming videos from the backend is impossible. You need to mount a directory containing the videos such that it's accessible on the frontends (and you should use the same path on all frontends).
>Or is it best just to mount the server drive automatically on bootup on >all frontends and point MythVideo at that? > > Yes. Mike _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
