[mythtv-users] Cameras and frontend in MythTV

[Kichigai Mentat]

On Apr 7, 2006, at 08.03, Serge Nunes wrote:

> I recently installed MythTV on my debian PC. Now I just want to use  
> MythTV to grab video from my Pixar 261 and Pixar 300 and then move  
> arround the video.

Well, basically, you're telling MythTV to do something it wasn't  
meant for. MythTV was meant for use with TV cards, and extended to  
allow control of HD cable boxes via FireWire.

I suppose the biggest challenge in all of this is the fact that the  
Pixar 261 and 300 might not be recognized by Myth as video capture  
devices (at /dev/video0 and /dev/video1), or even worse: not  
recognized by the Kernel at all. The other problem is that Myth will  
be expecting a channel line up (but you can always assign a "channel"  
number to the input) and a TV listing (this is the bad thing).

> How can I do this?!

No clue. There's always the old Myth adage: get it working outside of  
Myth first. So, make sure you can capture from the video devices  
BEFORE you try getting them integrated into Myth.

> I am having a lot of problems because I dont have any TV card, this  
> could influence the normal work of mythTV ?!

Well, Myth's purpose was to work TV cards. What do you mean "the  
normal work of MythTV"? What exactly are you trying to do? What on  
Earth are these "Pixar" devices? Whenever I Google for them, all I  
get is information on the film company, or random gibberish. Are you  
trying to capture video for use as a security system? Because if  
that's the trick, there are better ways to go about it. If you're  
trying to use these "Pixar" devices as TV capture inputs for use with  
Myth, then you're probably on the wrong track. Basically: We need  
more info on what you want to accomplish.

>
> Other question is that I try to change the IP address to something  
> like 192.168.10.10, and I want to run the frontend in other PC via  
> web...is that possible?! Like writting http://192.168.10.58:6543/,  
> but this is not working...

Well, MythTV was meant to allow a separated front-end/back-end  
architecture. I assume when you say "via web" you mean over the  
Internet. This is pretty much impossible. Myth expects all machines  
to be on the same subnet. Also, it's highly unlikely that you'll ever  
be able to pull enough bandwidth over the internet to allow for  
streaming video at multiple megabits per second. If you mean over a  
LAN, then there shouldn't be any problem

I have spotted one big problem, though. "http://192.168.10.58:6543"  
is all wrong. You can't use a front-end in a web browser. You have to  
install a front end on the machine you're trying to use. There's a  
pre-compiled version of MythFrontend for Mac OS X (I don't think it  
works with Intel Macs yet), there's the obvious solution for Linux,  
and there's now TapeWorm for Windows users. Also, the two IP  
addresses you give don't match. Don't know if that's a typo, or what.

Try re-reading all of the MythTV documentation, checking out the  
MythTV Wiki, and the MythTV page at the Wikipedia. You might be able  
to find some answers there.

> Thanks in advance,
>
> Serge Nunes.
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