[mythtv-users] running backend and frontend on different machines

[Ralf Haller]

Hello,

I just managed to install mythTV running the frontend and backend on 
different machines. The backend is my old PC running on an AMD-K6-2 with 
550 MHz (too slow for encoding and playing) using a PVR 350 for 
capturing. The frontend is a MSI Hermes 650 barebone (I'm reporting on 
this barebone in a future posting) running a Celeron 2 GHz.

Everything works just fine, only browsing the recordedings and playing 
them is very slow. It takes up to one minute to show the thumbnail of 
the recording or starting it for playing. When it started playing it 
works fine. LiveTV works without any problems too.

Here is the output of mythfrontend :

Input #0, mpeg, from 
'myth://192.168.1.254:6543/10_20030605083000_20030605090500.nuv':
  Stream #0.0: Video: mpegvideo, 720x576, 29.97 fps, 16000 kb/s
  Stream #0.1: Audio: mp2, 48000 Hz, stereo, 384 kb/s
rebuffering (150529 256000)
rebuffering (244737 256000)

Running the frontend on the same machine as the backend doesn't show 
this problem. The problem must be related to network streaming.

The network connection between the backend and the frontend works 
perfectly and allows ftp, ssh etc. I am using a CVS version of mythTV 
from three weeks ago.

Any ideas which might cause these delays?

Ralf