[mythtv-users] MythTV core structure.

[Steele Price]

I don't see how this makes you duplicate the functionality of any file
system technology, it would just use those as they apply to MythTV, such
as... frontend attaches to backend and all the file shares that go along
with MythTV are here in this table instead of having to seek out what they
are at a lower OS level, any changes made to the backend are immediately
reflected to the frontend.  I personally am using autofs and nfs for this,
but I still have to remember what the shared directories are on the server
or create symlinks to all of them.  Someone else may choose to use samba,
same scenario, you have to remember where everything is, this is of course
not a big deal until you start duplicating it on more than one frontend.  If
the front had a table of all shared directories for every module, I have
them split across different partitions, audio on one, video on another,
photos on a third and those may at some point all split onto different
machines.

Really, forking off a special branch to do this seems silly, but without TV
as a module it makes it really difficult.

Steele Price
CTO
Digital Dreamshop
http://xtcp.net

-----Original Message-----
From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org]On Behalf Of Isaac Richards
Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 11:34 AM
To: Discussion about mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV core structure.


On Thursday 14 August 2003 01:40 pm, Steele Price wrote:
> Myth has done all the heavy lifting getting the functionality there, but
it
> appears not to be able to be distributed in this fashion, nor can it get a
> set of network accessible files without mapping all those files in the
> frontend with autofs/nfs/nis configurations that can challenge even a
> seasoned user.  Myth needs a frontend that can just be installed without
> alot of fuss for viewing and attach to a distributed network of
components.

Basically, the majority of what you want is for mythbackend to become a
generic file server?  I don't really want to spend more of my time
duplicating the functionality of nfs or samba, that seems silly to me.  Feel
free to submit a patch, though -- the vast majority of the code is already
there, used for remote TV viewing and transferring things like the channel
icons for the program guide.  Should be extremely easy to extend that to the
other modules/plugins.

Isaac
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