[mythtv-users] Air Video and Mythfs FUSE Mount

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On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 11:59 AM, jmk <jmk at foofus.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm curious if anyone has played with running Air Video on Linux and
> using it to stream content from a mythfs mount. I've had some luck with
> Air Video on the Mac and Myth content, but I'm hoping to consolidate all
> media stuff to my Myth backend.
>
> I've setup Air Video to share both a non-FUSE directory of videos and a
> mythfs mount of recordings. The Air Video iPhone app is able to play the
> videos fine. It lists the recordings OK, but identifies the .mpg files
> as invalid. Attempting to play them within the app results in a "No
> Video Stream found in file" error.
>
> I initially thought the problem was permissions-based. A "file" on any
> recording within the mythfs mount returned a "no read permission"
> result. However, I could still play the recording from that mount with
> mplayer and subsequent "file" queries then returned data as expected.
>
> I'm at a loss for why Air Video doesn't like the mythfs FUSE mount. Has
> anyone successfully done what I'm attempting here?
>
> Thanks!
> Joe

It sounds like you are running the air video server on your Mac
serving content from your backend that your Mac accesses via the FUSE
mount (correct me if I've misunderstood).
I've been quite successful with an alternate approach - running the
Air Video server directly on my backend following
http://wiki.birth-online.de/know-how/hardware/apple-iphone/airvideo-server-linux
and using the latest server executable here:
http://www.inmethod.com/forum/posts/list/1856.page
Note: under Ubuntu 10.10, you no longer need the custom ffmpeg

I run a mythlink.pl cron job that creates links to the recorded shows
with nice titles for the iphone-

HTH,
Steve