Lauri Tischler wrote:

C.Y.M wrote:

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I have setup a vdr client using streamdev client/server and xine. I would like to be able to play the recordings that are stored on the main server on the client. The client has a /video0 directory for its own recordings and I tried to mount /video1 as a smb drive. Unfortunately, no matter what I try, I can not get the /video1 directory to show in vdr. I have tried just making two directories on the local machine (not using smb) named /video0 and /video1 but still the second directory does not show up. I am starting vdr with "vdr -l 3 -v /video0 -c /etc/vdr -E /etc/vdr -P'xine -r'" Is there something Im missing?

It does not work that way, recordings are stored on /video0, if there is no room on /video0 a link is made there and actual file written to /video1

I have two boxes, MainVDR and BedRoom. MainVDR has disk, /video for its on use. BedRoom has disk, /video for it own use BedRoom also has directory defined, /video/MainVDR and MainVDR:/video disk nfs-mounted there. Works like charm.

So you have to use NFS instead of SMB.. I bet that is why. Also, you have to change the "resume ID" on the clients, correct?

Thanks,

Lauri Tischler wrote:

C.Y.M wrote:

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So you have to use NFS instead of SMB.. I bet that is why. Also, you have to change the "resume ID" on the clients, correct?

Yeah, took me a while to find out about 'resume ID' :) Also it might be a good idea to setup cronjob to touch .update on MainVDR:/Video every now and then

I have mounted a samba drive with smbfs to something like /mount/windows-pc and created a link like "windows-pc" in /video. Really worked apart from the fact that the connection was to slow despite of 54 MBit-WLAN - samba does not seem to be too fast, so I need to check it again with NFS. Another problem arose when my windows-pc was turned off. Then /mount/windows-pc was not available, the link not valid. This lead to weird crashes within VDR. I also posted this on this ML a long time ago but did not get an answer. Currently, I don´t use it anymore since I know of this problem and my connection to the windows-pc is done using WLAN - maybe those problems even don´t exist anymore...

Joerg