[mythtv] Debugging MythMusic?

Joseph A. Caputo jcaputo1 at comcast.net
Mon Sep 1 15:45:46 EDT 2003


On Monday 01 September 2003 13:58, Henrik (Mauritz) Johnson wrote:
> Oscar Carlsson wrote:
> >Hello Henrik,
> >
> >Monday, September 1, 2003, 6:32:57 PM, you wrote:
> >
> >HMJ> Being kind of new to MythTV. Is there a way to debug the software on
> > a HMJ> computer without any capture card. I'm especially interrested in
> > HMJ> debugging and running MythMusic standalone, is that posible.
> >
> >Shouldn't  be  any  problems running MythFrontend and then MythMusic
> > without the backend. As far as I know, MythMusic doesn't use the backend.
>
> But the frontend needs the backend and the backend needs a capture card,
> or am I missing something. When I tries to start the backend without a
> capture card it complains about no card. I do a lot of my opensource
> coding on my laptop waiting at airports so using a remote backend isn't
> an option in this case.

No, the frontend only needs the backend for TV functions.  The backend is not 
needed at all for the plugins (MythMusic, MythGallery, MythVideo, 
MythWeather...)

-JAC


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