[mythtv-users] Difference between myth front end and back end?

[Dane Kantner]

> Can someone help me out with an explaination of the myth front end and
> backend?
>
> docs some more I'm thinking myth backend is more like a daemon running in
> the background and the frontend is ummmm perhaps the myth menus displayed
> on screen?  or is it myth playback (live tv or a recording)?

mythbackend is like a daemon that runs... you could think of mythbackend as
a server and mythfrontend as a client.  the backend does everything related
to controlling the TV controller hardware, database access, etc.  the
frontend accesses the backend to get its data (channel info, video streams,
etc) and the frontend is the program that runs the GUI that the user sees.

> Also I'm curious if you see regular computer out put on your TV (like KDE
> or your regular console output, PC booting etc.)?

I think for the most part, most people see the exact same thing on their TV
as they would on their computer monitor. There are video cards that let you
seperate the outputs more, so only the myth would be displayed to the second
output, but I'm not sure that many have/use/care about them?

-Dane