[mythtv-users] Questions about mythtv and if its what I need

[Joel Feenstra]

The backend does most of the work as you said, but you can have multiple 
backends, and/or combination backend/frontend machines. Frontends do need to 
be able to decode the video thats streamed to it from the backend. I see 
about 15% on my 1700 athlon xp when only doing playback. I don't know if you 
can go diskless for a frontend, but it may be possible. I've have heard of 
xbox frontends, and mini-itx computers that work well as frontends.

Joel Feenstra

On Sunday 28 March 2004 09:47 pm, hondaman wrote:
> I am kind of confused about the front end and back end parts of mythtv.
> If I understand it, I should be able to do this:
>
> Have diskless clients (front ends?) for my tv's in each room
>
> Have a central sever (backend?) that will record, store, and serve
> media, including movies I already have, and mp3's and pictures.
>
> In other words, the backend, or server, does ALL the heavy duty work
> such as encoding, decoding, ect. so that the front end computers really
> dont need to be all that substantial since the work is being done
> elsewhere?
>
> Thank you for your help.
>
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