[mythtv-users] Trouble playing OTA HD content on WDTV devices

[Michael T. Dean]

On 08/10/2009 09:28 AM, Dennis Cartier wrote:
> I thought I would try using my WDTV device (with the WDLXTV firmware
> for network operation) to be a temporary frontend. I found the
> mythrename.pl script and set about getting the recorded content
> exposed to the WDTV over NFS. The content was recorded from a HD
> Homerun ATSC tunner.
>
> The first problem that I ran into was that the symbolic links the
> script makes are not really suited for the way the WDTV mounts the NFS
> shares. WDTV wants to always mount things under a common mount point
> (/tmp/media/usb/[mount name]). I figured this would simply be  a minor
> bit of work to modify the script to create relative links that take
> into account the mount structure of the WDTV device.

Assuming the WDTV device supports it, you can also use CIFS and have the
server resolve symlinks for you.  Add the lines:

unix extensions = No
follow symlinks = Yes
wide links = Yes

to the "[global]" section of your smb.conf.

Mike