I searched around and couldn't find a specific answer to this question.  What I did find led me to believe that there may be some problem associated with what I want to do, but I'm not sure:

 

I'm thinking of building an unRaid server to hold my media files, but I want to make sure that it will give me the functionality that I'm seeking.

 

Currently I run pyTivo on a Vista desktop that also holds all my media files.  These are streamed via cat5e to 2 Series 2 Tivos and one TiVo HD.  It works great, but I'm interested in expanding my storage and securing my files against data loss by building a large unRaid server.

 

My understanding is that the unRaid server will appear as a networked drive.  Will I be able to point pyTivo to my media files on the unRaid server and stream them much like I do now?

 

i.e. unRaid server --> Desktop running pyTivo --> Tivo.

 

Has anyone done this?  Are there any pitfalls to this setup?

 

Everything is very transparent to me now.  PyTivo is running as a service and starts up automatically each time my desktop starts.  I pretty much keep my desktop on 24/7, so my files are always there for me to see without any interaction on my part.

 

Should I expect the setup that I mentioned above to be just as transparent?  Will pyTivo simply treat my unRaid server as though it is a HDD on my desktop?

 

Many Thanks

 

John

I dont see a problem with that.. I am doing something similar. Instead of pyTivo I am running several machines with XBMC and stream all my media from my unRaid server just fine..

I ran Pytivo reliably for a long time.  From 2008 until a week ago on 4.2 until my install drive died =)

 

I was using a full Slackware install though.

 

The hardest part was getting ffmpeg compiled and working right, but I have a thread where I gave some info about how I did it.

 

I am currently deciding whether I have the patience to do it all again =)

There's been some additional discussions on this over in this thread - http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=6571.0

 

And a summary of steps required posted in this message: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=6571.msg66634#msg66634

 

As indicated there, there is already a prepackaged FFmpeg available for a full Slackware unRAID install, care of one of the big Slackware contributors Alien.