[mythtv-users] remote frontend problems

Lonnie Borntreger myth at borntreger.com
Mon Nov 7 06:54:33 EST 2005


On Sun, 2005-11-06 at 19:45 -0500, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> Lonnie Borntreger wrote:
> >I'm not sure I understand why NFS, mplayer, and totem even come up for
> >watching prerecorded shows on a frontend.  I put the frontend on a
> >laptop, told it where the backend was, didn't mount anything, and watch
> >prerecorded (and live) shows through MythTV itself - streamed across the
> >network from the backend (just like live tv).
> >  
> >
> For efficiency.  Why make mythbackend go to the trouble of streaming the 
> file if the frontend can just read the file directly?

I guess if you don't mind losing commercial skipping and other features.
For me, that's >90% of the reason to use MythTV in the first place.

(of course, this has no bearing on any media that MythTV can't stream)

Lonnie




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