To best answer Grant's inquiry...

Myth does NOT shuttle the recording data from the backend to the frontend automagically for transcoding and burning to DVD. This is what my initial request was about, and the 'mythtv-users' thread discussion says that this is a limitation of the code. As the MythTV code matures, this situation should be resolved.

I don't think that anyone would disagree with me that this function should work "out of the box." It does, as long as you're using MythTV as a single appliance (BE/FE on the same box). Those of us on the bleeding edge, using seperate BE servers and FE systems are pushing the code beyond it's initial design. So, for now we MUST hand code linkages to the data using NFS or Samba to make this work. I'm working on it slowly. I thank everyone for all the pointers.

I have other networking issues that are causing me problems, and it's way beyond the scope of KM. I'm trying to sort this out, too.

Right. You have to mount the data directory on the front-end.


What is a limitation? You really don't want the backend
streaming the file to the frontend. It's a waste of
programmnig and CPU time. Let the kernel and NFS do the work (I
would have argued the same for normal playback as well, but
that ship has sailed).

It would be cool if did.

Hand code? What do you have to do other than add a line to
/etc/fstab? That seems to be a far cry from

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Grant

That's the point!

I'm not going to discuss this any further than to say that issues like this are exactly what is limiting Linux's acceptance.

I put forth a scenario that the average 'Joe' should be able to 'point and click' to setup, rather than hand code config files. If Myth could do this, from the GUI, all would be great. I don't use Windows MCE, but I'd imagine that it would not entail editing files.

At the present state of MythTV, my initial inquiry is NOT possible. I'm technically inclined to work it out, but the general public would just choose some other easier solution.