[mythtv-users] Frontend/Backend - newbie question

[Donald Webster]

You can use network share (I use NFS), or the backend can stream it to
the frontend.  In either case, it starts playing when you hit play.
That is the whole point of "streaming" :)

On 4/4/07, Paul Mason <latepaul at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Apologies if this is covered in the docs somewhere. I have looked but what I
> found was either too high level or too low level.
>
> I'm trying to get a feel for how the frontend/backend architecture works
> when it comes to playing back recordings etc. The physical file that
> contains the recording is on disk on the backend that recorded it, correct?
> If the frontend that plays it is on another machine how does the data get to
> the frontend? Is it streamed? Is the file copied? Network share?
>
> I read some docs on the communication protocal that imply that it's a file
> transfer, but if that's so I would imagine the file begins to play before
> it's fully transferred?
>
> Thanks
>
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> Paul Mason
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