[mythtv-users] Re: mythtv backend on a headless fileserver

Jarod Wilson jarod at wilsonet.com
Thu Mar 10 06:49:24 UTC 2005


On Wednesday 09 March 2005 22:16, KianTeck wrote:
> >>I run the setup program on my headless backend all the time. I just ssh
> >>into it from my frontend and run setup. The setup program is displayed
> >>on the frontend using X but is actually run from the backend and
> >>modifies the backend's settings.
> >
> >I know, I do the same. The question was why X and Qt even have to be on
> > the backend though.
>
> When you run an X application remotely, it is the GUI output that gets
> displayed at the local machine.  In other words, if you ssh into the
> backend from a frontend (or any *nix box)

Or from Windows w/an X server running (I've done it w/Cygwin's X server).

> and run mythsetup, mythsetup 
> runs on the backend (ie it's using the backend's CPU cycles), but the
> output is displayed on the frontend.

I know that too. :-)

> Hope this explains why you'll need X and Qt on the backend.

Not exactly, at least, not in the way the OP is after, I believe. I think the 
OP was after a way to do master backend setup without any X or Qt at all. I 
completely understand why X and Qt are needed with the current setup utility. 
I believe the question was more "why isn't there a cli way to do it?". The 
main reason is because nobody has written the code to do it. Its been hashed 
over a few times on the list before. Saving a few people a few megabytes of 
storage on a system that should have several GB of storage (for recordings) 
just isn't a priority.

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