[mythtv-users] Storage groups and samba shares

[David Brodbeck]

Nick Morrott wrote:
> On 02/08/2008, Paul <mylists at wilsononline.id.au> wrote:
>   
>> Can some explain or tell me if I use the new Storage groups and how this would impact
>>  Windows programs which play mythtv recordings?
>>
>>  eg Tapeworm , or MythTVPlayer?
>>
>>  I assume since the recordinds a spread over different filesystems / directories then the
>>  player will need to query the DB to findout where recording is?
>>     
>
> Do these players stream directly from the network share, or via
> mythbackend accessing and then streaming from the network share
> transparently?
>   
MythTV Player streams from the backend.  I know because my Windows box 
doesn't mount my video storage filesystem at all.