[mythtvnz] MythTV and PopcornHour A-110

[Nick Rout]

On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Jim Cheetham <jim at inode.co.nz> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 3:14 PM, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:
>> where are your recordings coming from. I say that because the codecs
>> and containers can vary depending what your source is.
>
> Off Freeview, via a Technotrend S-1401 DVB-S card.
>
> However, in all these cases, I was hoping that I was delivering the
> same file! And it plays properly on the A-110 via NFS ...

Yes thats right, if it can play them via at least one method we know
it is not a problem with the codec/format. And DVB-S stuff is well
within the PCH's capabilities. The problem must be in the delivery
method!

>
>> There are also other uPnP servers for linux that may work better, eg
>> FUPPES (google it). I know knoppmyth were including fuppes as an
>> optional extra even after myth got uPnP support.
>
> That's worth knowing about, thanks.
>
>> Samba - sounds like permissions issue? ie you can list the directory
>> but not access the files?
>
> Sadly, I can access all the files just fine from another device on the
> network :-(

does t'other device access the samba share with the same username as
the PCH does? Also is one connecting via smbfs and the other by cifs?
There are differences in terms of permissions.

Is it possible to access the PCH via ssh or telnet and dig around a bit?

>
>> NFS - is there an option to follow symlinks?
>
> Well, with a little further investigation, I can see that the symlinks
> are to absolute names, which probably won't work over NFS if the
> client machine doesn't have the directory mounted in the same absolute
> location as the source (i.e. it's /data on the myth server, /data on
> the machine I tested it from ... but unlikely to be /data on the A110
> ... and z: on the windows PC, which I've just noticed fails badly too)
>
>> I don't know many people in NZ with PCH's, you may be better with the
>> mythtv-user list or the popcornhour forum (which is somewhere on a
>> domain like networkmediatank.something)
>
> Mmm, you may be right ... :-)
>

There has been talk for some time about porting the mythfrontend used
on the MVPMC (?) to the PCH, but I haven't seen the code, merely get
referred to a forum where someone said they were looking at doing it.