[mythtv-users] How to force frontends to play only from master backend?

[Nick Rout]

On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 9:42 AM, William <william_munson at comcast.net> wrote:
> Harry Coin wrote:
>>
>> Using 0.21 I need help to cause frontends to play from the 'masterbackend'
>> only, even though diskless other slave backends that received and stored the
>> shows are running on the same little net.
>>
>> I have some older, slower diskless PC's acting as slave backends.  These
>> were just supposed to catch the video and put it on the common nfs share,
>> never host playbacks.   There is a master backend that has an NFS share that
>> all the frontends and backends can access.  The masterbackend is fast, has
>> quick disks and has a fast network connection.
>>
>> But, I've proven that the frontends actually don't actually pull from the
>> master backend either stream or nfs, but contact the slave backend that
>> recorded the video, cause that little underpowered thing to pull the video
>> from the nfs share, then stream it out to the frontend.    So, bad
>> performance, choppy playback, dropped frames on recording and so on.
>>
>> So, I really need to turn off any kind of playback activity / streaming
>> from all the diskless slave backends - but to have them still be running to
>> host the tuner cards and record shows.   Help please!
>>
>> Last, I'd appreciate some guidance about whether the frontends would do
>> better to use NFS to playback from the server, or cause the server to stream
>> -- and tell me how to direct the frontends to implement that decision.
>>
>> Thanks much!
>>
>> Harry
>
> There is an option to always stream from the backend with a check box on one
> of the setup screens, Sorry but I am not able to get to the system right now
> to give the specifics
>
> I think its in mythtv-setup rather than the frontend setup.

I think its in frontend setup as I just noticed it when setting up a
new frontend yesterday.

However I am not sure that it achieves the aim of "always stream from
the MASTER backend rather than the backend that recorded it"