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

Jarod Wilson jcw at wilsonet.com
Sun Mar 28 20:51:10 EST 2004


On Mar 28, 2004, at 13:47, 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

Yes. You could PXE boot the clients.

> Have a central sever (backend?) that will record, store, and serve 
> media, including movies I already have, and mp3's and pictures.

Yes.

> 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?

Frontends have to do the decoding.

-- 
Jarod C. Wilson, RHCE

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