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cossaboon.mythtv at mac

Oct 5, 2005, 4:19 AM

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Sharing VIDEO with remote FE - Help Please.

I am trying to setup a front-end (FE) to use the stored VIDEO in the /
myth/video directory on the BackEnd (BE) that also has a FE. All are
Knoppmyth. I had to change the player's options to use X11, but now
the BE with an integrated FE can see and play the VIDEO fine. The
remote FE can not.

1) the 'data base' that holds the VIDEO information seems to be not
shared. I have to go in and recognize the video on the BE for it to
play them, then the FE states, that the video is moved, and needs to
re-recognize them (setup/video), then the BE/FE will not see them,
and around and around I go.

2) the FE has a BAD lip-Sync Issue that is not there on recordings
from TV or live-tv. Note that one of the VIDEO is a TV recording
moved to the VIDEO directory.

What I did:

Quick explanation:
-------------------------

BE/FE - Created a NFS mount of the /myth direcotory
FE - mounted the NFS mount
FE - changed the VIDEO Playback SETUP to point to the new mount for
video (and posters)

More Detailed explanation:
-------------------------------------
following directions at

http://knoppmythwiki.org/index.php?page=NFSHowTo

but I had no /etc/export

SO I created one with a single line

/myth/video 192.168.11.0/24(ro) #Export my videos

then did the;

/etc/init.d/nfs-common start
/etc/init.d/nfs-kernel-server start

then updated the kernal

update-rc.d nfs-common defaults
update-rc.d nfs-kernel-server defaults

then I went to the frontend

mkdir /mnt/share-videos
mount 192.168.11.105:/myth/video /mnt/share-videos

Then updated fstab with

#mount for video sharing

192.168.11.105:/myth/video /mnt/share-videos nfs
defaults,auto,noatime 0 0

and changed the MYTH application's setup to look for videos in the

/mnt/share-videos

directory

PROBLEMS:

It did not work!

I can see the files, but Myth on the FE states that they are 'not
there', I went to video setup, re-recognized the videos, and then
they played. They played poorly. Lip Sync was out my 30 seconds....

I went back to the BE/FE and tried to play the videos. The BE/FE
needed to re-recognize the files, then the played with no lip-sync
issue.

changed the mount to be the whole /myth directory and nothing.

From:
Kevin Cossaboon
Home MAC Mini Computer
http://www.cossaboon.net
cossaboon.mythtv[at]mac.com

sphing at gmail

Oct 5, 2005, 3:18 PM

Post #2 of 2 (956 views)
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Re: Sharing VIDEO with remote FE - Help Please. [In reply to]

AFAIK mythvideo shares one table across all its clients. So your FE has
videos at /myth/share-videos and your BE/FE has them in /myth/video.
Put the NFS mount in the same place and it should work. As far as
syncing... that sounds like another issue.

Vic

cossaboon.mythtv[at]mac.com wrote:

> I am trying to setup a front-end (FE) to use the stored VIDEO in the
> /myth/video directory on the BackEnd (BE) that also has a FE. All are
> Knoppmyth. I had to change the player's options to use X11, but now
> the BE with an integrated FE can see and play the VIDEO fine. The
> remote FE can not.
>
> 1) the 'data base' that holds the VIDEO information seems to be not
> shared. I have to go in and recognize the video on the BE for it to
> play them, then the FE states, that the video is moved, and needs to
> re-recognize them (setup/video), then the BE/FE will not see them, and
> around and around I go.
>
> 2) the FE has a BAD lip-Sync Issue that is not there on recordings
> from TV or live-tv. Note that one of the VIDEO is a TV recording moved
> to the VIDEO directory.
>
> What I did:
>
> Quick explanation:
> -------------------------
>
> BE/FE - Created a NFS mount of the /myth direcotory
> FE - mounted the NFS mount
> FE - changed the VIDEO Playback SETUP to point to the new mount for
> video (and posters)
>
> More Detailed explanation:
> -------------------------------------
> following directions at
>
> http://knoppmythwiki.org/index.php?page=NFSHowTo
> <http://knoppmythwiki.org/index.php?page=NFSHowTocom.lifli.iblog.NewWindow>
>
> but I had no /etc/export
>
> SO I created one with a single line
>
> /myth/video 192.168.11.0/24(ro) #Export my videos
>
> then did the;
>
> /etc/init.d/nfs-common start
> /etc/init.d/nfs-kernel-server start
>
> then updated the kernal
>
> update-rc.d nfs-common defaults
> update-rc.d nfs-kernel-server defaults
>
> then I went to the frontend
>
> mkdir /mnt/share-videos
> mount 192.168.11.105:/myth/video /mnt/share-videos
>
> Then updated fstab with
>
> #mount for video sharing
>
> 192.168.11.105:/myth/video /mnt/share-videos nfs defaults,auto,noatime 0 0
>
> and changed the MYTH application's setup to look for videos in the
>
> /mnt/share-videos
>
> directory
>
> PROBLEMS:
>
> It did not work!
>
> I can see the files, but Myth on the FE states that they are 'not
> there', I went to video setup, re-recognized the videos, and then they
> played. They played poorly. Lip Sync was out my 30 seconds....
>
> I went back to the BE/FE and tried to play the videos. The BE/FE
> needed to re-recognize the files, then the played with no lip-sync issue.
>
> changed the mount to be the whole /myth directory and nothing.
>
>
>
> From:
> Kevin Cossaboon
> Home MAC Mini Computer
> http://www.cossaboon.net
> cossaboon.mythtv[at]mac.com <mailto:cossaboon.mythtv[at]mac.com>
>
>
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