[mythtv-users] ssh tunnel/export display

[Chris Petersen]

> I have seen references to others doing this (Chris P.?) but I'm not 
> sure... what I need to do is remote display (export DISPLAY) my 
> mythfrontend from my main box (also the backend box) to another machine 
> (a Mac OS X machine in this case). I can do that either with ssh 
> tunnelling or plain "export DISPLAY=xx.xx.xx.xx:0" and it all works... 
> UNTIL its time to play video.

I've done this with the mythtvsetup program (and I walked a friend
through the setup this way on his powerbook, so I know that OSX deals
just fine with X11 forwarding over ssh), but I'm pretty sure it won't
work properly with anything that uses graphical acceleration (eg.
mythfrontend).  

X11 forwarding can't forward stuff like Xv that's drawn straight to the
"screen" (video RAM?  I'm not real sure how it all works).

-Chris