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

Mark Small msmall at eastlink.ca
Mon Sep 27 16:55:18 UTC 2010


On September 27, 2010 12:40:12 Raymond Wagner wrote:
>   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.
> _______________________________________________

Thanks a bunch, that worked.

Mark



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