[mythtv-users] MythTV without TV card

[Robert Middleswarth]

Tom van Wietmarschen wrote:

>On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 12:14:47PM -0600, Unit3 wrote:
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>>Tom van Wietmarschen wrote:
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>>>Is it possible to run MythTV without a TV tuner card ? 
>>>I just want a pc to watch downloaded movies, dvd's and mp3's, 
>>>the files will be uploaded to the machine using samba.
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>>I don't forsee any problems doing this, as long as you don't try to run 
>>the "watch tv" module. ;)
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>I've got a couple of avi and mpeg files in /media/video I've set the video path
>to /media/video but mythtv doesn't show the files in the 'watch a recording' menu.
>I guess they need to be added to the database ?
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>Tom
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Tom Watch a recording only works with myth based NUV files wont work 
with others.  Look into mythvideo to watch AVI/MPG files