[mythtv-users] remote frontend problems

[Cymen Vig]

On 11/7/05, Lonnie Borntreger <myth at borntreger.com> wrote:
> 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)

Perhaps you mean playing outside of MythTV on the front end? I seem to
recall that commericial skipping still worked on the remote front end
when I was playing the video mounted via NFS. This is probably 100%
related to the KnoppMyth issue and not the normal stable release. I
wonder if RDMathews is running KnoppMyth.