[mythtv-users] Live TV with knoppixmyth liveCD

Dewey Smolka dsmolka at gmail.com
Wed Dec 7 08:10:36 EST 2005


On 12/7/05, Angel Gabriel <angelisonline at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a capture card with the bt878 chip on it - What I want to do, is to
> run a knoppixmyth live CD, and have this machine display the output of this
> card on screen. I don't want any recording, just direct output - Is this
> possible using the LIVE cd?
>

No. Any recording (and Live TV is a recording) requires a backend. A
backend requires an install. The KnoppMyth Live CD can be used to run
a frontend off the CD (no install) but you need a backend on your
network to connect to.


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