[mythtv-users] Mythfrontend 0.19 looking for mpg files?

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Thu Mar 9 07:55:06 UTC 2006


On 03/09/2006 12:50 AM, Daniel A. Segel wrote:
> Beny Spensieri Jr wrote:
>> On a
>> closer look, it does not seem to be able to create new
>> mpg files, even though the permissions have not
>> changed.
>>
>> I am firing up mythbackend in a terminal window as
>> root, and mythfrontend in a second terminal as a
>> regular user.  Does it use the frontend or the
>> backend's permissions to save recordings?
> On my system the recordings are creating using the permissions the 
> backend is run under (root in my case). My frontend is run by a normal user.

Because the backend does the recording and the frontend does the 
playback.  :)

Mike


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