Andreas Mair wrote: > Hi, > > >>Thanks for the "-playlist" tip, that works great with streaming live tv >>with mplayer. But, when I try to stream a recording, mplayer appears to >>try and play a file locally. Does streaming a recording only work from >>the localhost? > > > No, but you have to configure VDRAdmin correctly: > Go to the configuration menu of VDRAdmin. You'll find two settings for Video > folder. One for VDR's video folder (e.g. /video) and one for your client PC > for streaming. Here you have to supply the path where your PC can access > VDR's recording. Please also consider viewing the online help. > Thanks, Andreas. I should RTFM better :). I was just trying to see if I could map a directory to a Windows PC using Samba, but it looks like its using 8.3 (shortname) dir listings which causes it to fail. Thats ok. I appreciate the clarifications. NFS would be the best solution. Best Regards, C.