[mythtv-users] Can't play recordings unless slave backend is running

[Raymond Wagner]

  On 9/27/2010 11:36, Mark J. Small wrote:
> In the above 192.168.0.1 is the ip address of the slave backend.  The slave
> does not hold the storage hard drives.  The slave has the storage drives
> mounted using nfs from the MBE.  Is there some way to tell myth to play back
> the recordings from the MBE (which is always on and holds the actual files),
> instead of the slave? /mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

MythTV will first check to see if the file is available on a locally 
mounted drive, before falling back to the listed for the recording in 
the database.  If all of your storage is on the master backend, there is 
an option called 'master backend override', which will force all 
streaming to be done from the master backend, for setups like yours.