[mythtv] backend plus frontend

[Greg.Froese at Federated.CA]

Ken,

I'm not totally there myself.  I can get mythtv to startup fine on the 
frontend, while the backend is running on a different machine across my 
LAN.  I select TV and I can schedule a recording using the guide with no 
trouble.  however, if i try to watch a recorded show, I get the screen 
displaying all my shows and the first one is highlighted with all the 
details at the bottom, however, that is where mythfrontend hangs.

An error appears on the console in the backend saying something like:
unknown command: QM<something, can't remember>_CHECKFILE

obviously not sure what the error is, but something to that effect.
any one else having these problems?

any one successfully running myth across the network with some advise?
gf





Ken VanDine <ken at bizrace.com>
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I did that and no luck.  Mythfrontend starts fine, setup finds the 
settings in
the database on the backend just fine.  When I select TV from the main
mythfrontend menu, the frontend seg faults.  Not sure what could be 
causing it. 

Is there a reason localhost is hard coded in the source?  I did change it 
and
recompile, but it would be much cleaner to get that from the
backend_settings.txt file. 

So, I assume you have successfully run it in this fashion?  I really need 
to,
all I have is an P3 866 for the backend and a P3 733 for the frontend.  I 
do not
have a machine fast enough to watch live tv at.  My 866 can record well 
using
mpeg-4 at 480x480, it also plays it back just fine.  So, I figure 
separating the
tasks is just what I need.  I think it is a great design.  Another 
question, how
does the backend handle multiple TV capture cards to sound cards?  Do I 
have to
have 1 sound card per capture card?  How do you manage this for play back? 
 How
does it know which video to match to which audio?  If this works out, I 
want to
upgrade the 866 box to an athlon or P4 (maybe SMP) and put in a few 120GB 
drives
and RAID them.  Then add several capture cards so I can watch live tv on 2 
tv's
and also record a third program simultaneously.  I know it would have to 
be a
pretty hot box, but it would be fun if I could make it work. 

Well, thanks for the advice.

--Ken

Quoting Greg.Froese at federated.ca:

> not sure if you got this solved yet, but I changed the ip in the main() 
> function of main.cpp in the frontend and then recompiled.
> you also have to change the ip in mysql.txt
> 
> hope that helps.
> gf
> 
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> Ken VanDine <ken at bizrace.com>
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> Hello everyone,
> 
> Has anyone successfully setup a frontend and backend on different hosts? 
I 
> just
> tried it and it seg faults.  I did find a couple sourse files that 
> referenced
> localhost and changed those to the IP of my backend box.  Any ideas will 

> be nice.
> 
> Thanks, 
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Ken VanDine
biZrace Inc.
http://www.biZrace.com
kvandine at biZrace.com
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