[mythtv-users] backend power

[Jared Greenwald]

Is there some documentation as to how the directory structure under
/var/lib/myth* is supposed to be setup such that these things would be
clearer?

-Jared

On 2/19/07, Brad DerManouelian <myth at dermanouelian.com> wrote:
>
> On Feb 19, 2007, at 1:58 PM, Jared Greenwald wrote:
>
> > I seem to be a little confused about how this whole backend/
> > frontend thing works.
> >
> > I'd like to be able to keep all of my media up on the backend.
> > This includes transcoded DVD movies, music, and tv shows.  It
> > doesn't seem to be setup this way.  Ultimately, I'd like to setup a
> > single backend machine with multiple frontend machines.  I'd like
> > all of the media files to reside on the backend so that they can be
> > played on any of the frontend machines.
> >
> > I'm playing with a test setup at the moment with a backend and
> > separate frontend machine and when I attempt to rip a DVD, it seems
> > to just plop the resulting files on the local frontend's disk.
> >
> > Also, same with mp3s/music files.
> >
> > Has anyone tried this?  How would I be able to set this up such
> > that everything is shared.
>
> TV Recordings are managed by the backend, but movies and music are
> front-end plugins. To make them share across all machines, you have
> to set up shares on your drive. You can use Samba or NFS to share the
> directories from your backend and mount them to the same path on your
> frontend so the same paths work on all of your machines. I found NFS
> easy and the defaults gave me good throughput.
>
>
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