On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 03:11:08PM +0000, Laz wrote:
On Saturday 11 February 2006 13:34, Peer Oliver Schmidt wrote:
Hi,
I'd like to have a one VDR machine near my satellite dish to do the recordings and another VDR machine to replay the recordings and do live TV. The /video should be shared via NFS.
Anyone done this? Problems / suggestions are welcome.
I do something similar: my main vdr box is downstairs and does all the recording and gets used for most of the playback. Upstairs, I have another vdr box used solely for playback.
I also have the same setup - one VDR near the dish - in my case with 4 DVB-devices and one VDR-box in the living room that I'm using as client. I have mounted the "server" video-directory using NFS at the client.
I have some problems to get picture at the client sometimes - when it happens I have to switch channel until I get picture - then I can switch back to the channel I wanted to see. I'm also having to Hauppauge MVP's using vompserver that streams from the server and they always get picture so I think it has something with streamdev or xine to do?
I'm doing any nfs mounting and unmounting on the 'playback system' through the command menu rather than at boot: no real reason for this, just how I set it originally! I'm mounting it on a subdirectory off the local /video directory. Like this, the recordings end up being sorted by date because they are assumed to be episodes of the same thing. I think I originally set it like this so that there wasn't any chance of my epg file or anything else being overwritten by accident! Once they recordings are mounted, you need to 'touch /video/.update' before you can see them: this gets done as part of my mount command.
I've been trying with that a little but I didn't really understand how it should work? It feels like that the video-dircetorys gets updated anyway? If I touch .update in the shared video-directory it just stays there - can anyone tell me how this works in the latest VDR-versions?
/ Lars
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