yauiclient path substitution

[artmetz]

Martin,
Is there any reason/benefit to use the path substitution when running yauiclient on the server?
I do use the path substitution on my client machines.
Art

[mvallevand]

Yes there are a some benefits (or I wouldn't have added it)

- importantly it is the only way to be able to skip in-progress recordings which can't be skipped with normal http protocol
- transfers file handling burden from NextPVR to network filesystem which probably has more optimized i/o, no need to translate fiiesystem commands to http.

Local Drive -> NextPVR -> client 1 fs read, 1 network write, 1 network read
Substituted local drive -> client 1 fs read, 1 network write, 1 network read.

- when files are on a NAS improvements are more dramatic

NAS -> NextPVR -> client 1 filesystem read, 2 network reads, and 2 network writes.
NAS -> client 1 fs read, 1 network write 1 network read.

I suspect there may also be firewall/antivirus benefits

Martin