[besson3c]

nonhuman: not that you asked for my opinion, but if you plan to install FreeBSD simply to do as you are describing, I'd recommend installing MythTV on your Linux machine instead, and scrap your EyeTV setup. For starters, Hauppauge makes many different capture cards with varying features that are all cheaper than EyeTV, last I checked, and MythTV offers a lot of flexibility both in being a repository for recorded videos, as well as being a PVR.

I've used Myth a lot, so let me know if this idea is at all intriguing...

As for your question, I think that would be up to the OS X Finder to discover SSH volumes. I don't know if there is a way to get it to do that. If you don't like using the little MacFuse menu widget, you can create simple little scripts and wrap them in a Platypus wrapper for mounting your SSH shares via public key authentication. This is what I do with over 30 shares I connect to - it works great for me, and I've found it to be much faster than AFP, despite the fact that AFP in theory should be a lighter weight protocol not having to maintain a secure tunnel.

[nonhuman]

Originally Posted by besson3c 

nonhuman: not that you asked for my opinion, but if you plan to install FreeBSD simply to do as you are describing, I'd recommend installing MythTV on your Linux machine instead, and scrap your EyeTV setup. For starters, Hauppauge makes many different capture cards with varying features that are all cheaper than EyeTV, last I checked, and MythTV offers a lot of flexibility both in being a repository for recorded videos, as well as being a PVR.

I've used Myth a lot, so let me know if this idea is at all intriguing...

I'm using an HDHomeRun to get the TV signal to my computer, so the cost of an Elgato device isn't really an issue. Originally I was planning on doing the same with MythTV, but after reading about both MythTV and EyeTV, I decided that a Mac/EyeTV based solution would fit my needs better. I may still install MythTV so I can try it out, but since I've already got the EyeTV software which integrates so well with iTunes et al, it doesn't really seem that worthwhile at this point.

As for your question, I think that would be up to the OS X Finder to discover SSH volumes. I don't know if there is a way to get it to do that. If you don't like using the little MacFuse menu widget, you can create simple little scripts and wrap them in a Platypus wrapper for mounting your SSH shares via public key authentication. This is what I do with over 30 shares I connect to - it works great for me, and I've found it to be much faster than AFP, despite the fact that AFP in theory should be a lighter weight protocol not having to maintain a secure tunnel.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure that at this point it's up to Apple to give us Bonjour/SSHfs. I am pretty pleased with SSHfs for it's remote capabilities, haven't really tried it on my home network yet since Bonjour makes AFP so damned easy... But now that you mention it, I think I'll give SSHfs a shot as far as playing video on my MacBook that lives on my iMac. So far even with my new 802.11n network that hasn't worked quite as well as I'd like it to over AFP.

What MacFuse menubar widget are you talking about? I had one when I was trying out ExpanDrive, but decided to go the FOSS way, and MacFuse didn't install any menubar dealy.

[Edit: nope, using SSHfs instead of AFP still doesn't seem to be quite fast enough to play video over the network. ]

[besson3c]

I was referring to this thing, but I don't use it either:

MacFusion | The GUI for MacFUSE

Does HDHomeRun cache its video capture to a local hard drive? What happens if there is network latency?

[nonhuman]

Originally Posted by besson3c 

I was referring to this thing, but I don't use it either:

MacFusion | The GUI for MacFUSE

Does HDHomeRun cache its video capture to a local hard drive? What happens if there is network latency?

Ah.

Nope, no cacheing with the HDHomeRun. It just streams the signal over the network. I assume that network latency would result in dropped frames, but as long as the network is fast enough (gigabit ethernet and 802.11n are what I'm using) it shouldn't really be a problem). When I've got everything set up finally all the video will be going over nothing but gigabit ethernet, so I'm not too worried about it.

[besson3c]

Yeah, the video streaming approach is similar to what Hauppauge uses in their MediaMVP.

What kind of CPU hit does the EyeTV client take? The thing I really like about MythTV is that you can run the Myth client on either the same machine as the backend (i.e. Linux), or on your own workstation... Basically, any computer on your network can watch TV and videos via MythTV. My only problem is that the MythTV client on OS X is rather slow, and drops frames on my 1.25 Ghz Powerbook. It runs perfectly on my Macbook Pro though.

[Nergol]

You get what you pay for. No gigabit ethernet? IDE drives only? SMB protocol only?

BTW, what's wrong with SMB?

Among other things, I consider it a bug, not a feature, that Vista doesn't work with SMB out of the box. One of the many things that makes Microsoft suck.