[mythtv-users] Cannot access recorded video from remote front end

Steven Adeff adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com
Fri Oct 6 13:58:12 UTC 2006


On 10/4/06, H P Ladds <householdwords at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks,
>
> I thought that JFS was grasping at straws.
>
> I'm beginning to think that it has something to do with nfs. Do I have to
> sent up a network share?
>
>
> > $ ls -l /video
> > total 186936
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 191377420 Oct  2 20:00 1112_20061002195039.mpg
> > -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root     40373 Oct  2 20:00 1112_20061002195039.mpg.png
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root         0 Oct  3 10:54 nfslockfile.lock
> >
>
> Perhaps it has something to do with udev or hotplug. During the setup, the
> directory I use for store recorded content is /video. /video is on it's own
> 300 gig drive with a swap partition.
>
>
>
> $ cat /etc/fstab
> LABEL=/1             /                          ext3    defaults        1 1
> LABEL=/boot1       /boot                   ext3    defaults        1 2
> devpts                  /dev/pts               devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
> tmpfs                   /dev/shm              tmpfs   defaults        0 0
> LABEL=/music     /music                  jfs     defaults        1 2
> proc                    /proc                     proc    defaults        0
> 0
> sysfs                   /sys                     sysfs   defaults        0 0
> LABEL=/video     /video                    jfs     defaults        1 2
> LABEL=SWAP-pdc_dfjhah   swap    swap    defaults        0 0
>  LABEL=SWAP-hda3         swap       swap    defaults        0 0
> LABEL=SWAP-hdd1         swap       swap    defaults        0 0
>
> Perhaps udev is setting the /video partition/drive permissions so that the
> remote FE does not have access.
>
>
> On 10/3/06, Phill Edwards <philledwards at gmail.com > wrote:
> > > My remote front end cannot play recorded video files.  The remote FE can
> > > play live video using a HD3000 card located on my main FE/BE machine.
> > >
> > > When the remote FE tries to access the recorded video files this message
> is
> > > returned: "The file for this recording can not be found."
> > >
> > > The FE/BE machine can read and play the files.
> > >
> > > I have set the perms at 777 for the /video directory.
> > >
> > > As I write this message, I'm beginning to wonder if the difficulty could
> be
> > > the result of the the videos being stored on a JFS partition and the
> remote
> > > frontend has no JFS partitions on it. Nor did I use the "Linux JFS"
> option
> > > when installing FC 5 on the remote FE. Does the remote FE need some type
> of
> > > preparation in order to access a JFS file systems?
> >
> > I don't think JFS is the cause. I have a backend with JFS but I don't
> > think my remote Xbox frontend has JFS and it can still play the
> > recordings.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Phill

you may want to look at the log output of the remote frontend to see
why it can't play the file. if you don't have the recordings localy
mounted mythbackend should stream it to the frontend anyway.

-- 
Steve
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