Hi guys,
i'm not a a linux guru (got a friend that is though so he will understand your answers hopefully)

Anyway just installed Knoppmyth R5F27 on an old system with a TNT2 2 meg graphic card and a Twinhaan VisionDTV TER and it worked out of the box.

This is not the hardware i'll keep, I'll upgrade to decent hardware, this was just an experiment to see if myth can do what i want it to do.

I'm in Australia/Melbourne.

I've noticed that the moment i start to watch a channel that Myth starts recording it, is this normal..wont my HDD fill up awful fast if myth records everything instead of when i want it to. ?

Also i was wanting this system to replace an Xbox running XBMC, Now i dont keep video files on the xbox HDD..I have a server with 3 HDD's in it.
HDD1 has a shared directory called "Movies"
HDD2 has a shared directory called "TV1"
HDD3 has a shared directory called "TV2"

Can MythTV be made to see those 3 shares over the network so that when i click the media button, it will show me these 3 shares, then i can click on each share and it will show me the contents of each share ?.

And at the same time have it so that MythTv still stores it recorded files locally on the MythTV drive

Thanks
Batfink

Batfink

Mythtv operates like a PVR. It records everything to the hard drive and then outputs it. It is set up to auto expire these recordings unless you specifically record them permanently.

As for mounting the network shares you will need to activate Samba on your myth box. If run a search on Samba and also NFS you pick up heaps of information. I have created a separate directory for each share I wish to mount to match the media. Ie. /myth/video/name of share and mounted to network share to there. For music I do /myth/music/name of share and did same.

Hope this points you in the right direction.

Mudguts

Ok, thanks, thats good to know...at least i know the HDD wont fill up (hence the reason i was able to pause,REW live Tv straight away)


So samba is not enabled on Myth straight away..Shows why couldnt find the machine on my network. I'm a windows guru dude, I am sooo out of my depth with Linux thats its not funny ..But after comparing MythTv to God Awful Windows MCE maybe i'll convert

Luckily i have a smart Linux friend

Could I suggest you have a look at http://www.knoppmythwiki.org/ it has lots of doco on different aspects of KnoppMyth and don't be afraid to search the forums, there is an abundance of info here.

For reference, let your friend know that the system is based on Debian, so if he know that, he will easily find his way around the system.

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Girkers

Batfink,

You don't have to configure samba if you just want to mount shares from a windows box. You can just use



I suggest you set up mount points on


and mount the appropriate shares. Do this in a script that runs at boot time, or /etc/rc.local, because I have found that if you set this up in /etc/fstab, the mounts fail because the network stack doesn't start until after the mountall command is run.

You only have to configure samba if you want to share stuff FROM the mythbox.