[mythtv-users] Myth in a "viewer only" configuration?

[Audun Ytterdal]

"Joseph A. Caputo" <jcaputo1 at comcast.net> writes:

> Well, if you've got standard MPEG-2 files that can be played with your
> favorite media player (mplayer, xine, videolan-client, etc), you could use
> MythVideo as a nice frontend interface to manage & select your video files.
> You don't need a backend or a tv-card for such a setup.

That is information that took me ages to figure out. It isn't obvious
from the docs on the myth website.

The most annoying problem was that i tried to execute "mythtv" instead
of "myth-frontend", It only went black and crashed on my xbox. What
exactly is the mythtv-exexutable?

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Audun