Thanks to Cecil's LinHES doc and the SlaveBackEndHowTo wiki, I have easily setup a slave backend. I'm amazed at the SD TV quality over a slow wireless connection. My problem is I would like to view videos stored on my backend on my frontend and have been unsuccessful. Here is what I have tried.

Live TV and recordings work fine on the front end so I assume permissions are OK.

Frontend is Mythtv2
Backend is Mythtv1

On frontend:
cd /mnt
ln -s Mythtv1/video video

(Setup-Video Settings-General Settings change directory to hold videos to /mnt/video)

Restart

When I open Watch Videos, I see one folder with "Unknown Prefix", I open that to see "Myth" then "Video" then I see my videos. If I open one I see the metadata but when I try to open it I get "Failed to open" "Check to see if file exists"

Being a Linux Noob I think that I have messed up my mount point and I don't how to fix it. Or I'm completely off and need someone to point me in the right direction.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

I messed up my discription above. When refering to the frontend I mean the slave backend. Sorry about the confusion.

I have a similar setup running and I can watch videos on both slave and master BE.

Here is what I have found, on the Slave BE I had to change the video's location in setup to be /mnt/video this points to the Master Backend as /myth/video.

Then I have to run Video Manager on the Slave BE and it brings in all of the Videos that are on the Master Backend. It took a little fiddling most with where "Covers" are stored on the MBE, but it all works.

The only annoying issue I have found in all of this, is the metadata seems to be stored in a unique location that one or the other cannot get to.

Essentially, video is either on /mnt/video or /myth/video. and to the video manager it doesn't seem to be able to read the same location from either place. This causes it to show two locations if you look in the web link. So if I go to Mythweb/video and try to watch a video that was setup on the SBE then path looks like this. http://xxx.xxx.xx.x/mythweb/data/video/ ... verick.avi with the redundancy being carried in the path. i.e. if I manually shorten that path dropping /mnt/video from it then I can get to that file just fine vs. one setup by video manager on the MBE would show up as http://xxx.xxx.xx.x/mythweb/data/video/Maverick.avi

Anyway, that is another topic and I haven't figured it out yet, but your mileage may vary the biggest issue seems to be ensuring you point your SBE to the proper place with from Cecils instructions I believe was setup as /mnt/video

Hope this helps.

Andy

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KnoppMyth R5.5
MBE: AMD64 3400+, K8N Neo4 Plat., 1Gig, Asus Extreme N6200, 320G pata, 2x320Gsata, 750Gsata, PVR-150 Retail w/Blaster
SBE: AMD XP2000, GA 7ZMMH, 1 Gig, XFX 256M 6200, 20 Gig, PVR-150 Retail w/Blaster
SBE: AMD Dur1800, 512M, PVR500

I found the NFS How To on the wiki and that helped. I still had some problems so I tried mounting /myth/video on the Slave BE to /myth/video on the Master BE. I'm not sure that this is the best way to do this but, everything is working fine and I haven't had any problems with metadata, movie posters, etc.

Thanks for the help

Ryan