[mythtv-users] I want to use myth TV, with 5 computers with no live TV - *YET*

[Angel Gabriel]

On 11/14/05, Tom Lichti <tom at redpepperracing.com> wrote:
> Angel Gabriel wrote:

> > I have 5 machines avalible to me - 2 macs, both G5 flat screens..
> > *real sexy* with the ability to both plug into my nice big fat PA
> > system... *yes, I have a PA system, because I'm a DJ, and I like to
> > hear real bass when watching TV* for sound, and look good from a
> > distance playing DVD's - and three PC's all with 14G hard drives, and
> > lots of my TV shows on them.
> >
>
> Definitely possible, I'm doing it now. But, you could just use NFS and
> mount the remote filesystems all onto one master backend. It would
> probably be a bit easier that way, in terms of administration (just need
> NFS on the slaves, as opposed to many MythTV backends) and you only have
> to set it up once. Then the master just streams the files out to the
> clients. I personally have a master backend, a slave backend, and a
> separate NFS server that serves just videos, and any client can watch
> the videos.
>
> Tom
> > I will run front ends on the macs and my xbox.

The thing is I don't have all my recordings on one machine - they are
spread across three machines. And I want to keep diffrent material on
each machine - one for TV series, one for films, and one for err...
stuff that hasn't come out yet! lol