[mythtv] Myth & The Media MVP

Ant Daniel antdaniel at gmail.com
Sun Sep 25 20:01:21 UTC 2005


On 9/25/05, Liam Sharp <liam.sharp at keephatch.co.uk> wrote:
>
>
> Thanks for your response - what do u think is the most viable way of
> getting as much of the mythfrontend to work on the MVP ? Developing mvpmc
> further ? or could something clever be done with exporting displays from
> another box ? getting some kind of mythfrontend server that the mvpmc
> could connect to ? Or just waiting to see if a higher spec MVP comes onto
> the market ?
>
> Cheers
> Liam
>
>
> On Sun, 25 Sep 2005, Ian Caulfield wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 25 Sep 2005, Liam Sharp wrote:
> >
> > > My question is: The Media MVP looks like a great myth front end to me,
> and
> > > I see some parts of the myth protocol have been implemented here:
> > > http://mvpmc.sourceforge.net/, does anyone know of a reason why the
> full
> > > mythfrond end app cannot be ported to this device ?
> >
> > 16MB of memory is very tight - it is possible to run the frontend (or at
> > least, it was when I last tried several months ago) on the MVP, but even
> > swapping over the network you tend to run out of ram...
> >
> > Ian
> >
>
> --
> Liam Sharp
>
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> I've not done any Linux development let alone Mythtv so forgive me if this
is totally inappropriate, but couldn't most the the mythfrontend be run as
an X client (or server never get this round the right way) and then let the
server do most of the work?

Ant.
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