[mythtv-users] Remote Frontend Hardware

Brian Wood beww at beww.org
Tue Apr 18 03:33:47 UTC 2006


On Apr 17, 2006, at 9:15 PM, Joe Votour wrote:

>
>
> --- Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Apr 17, 2006, at 8:39 PM, Matt a mythtv user
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm looking at building a small, preferably flash
>> memory based, system
>>> so I can watch TV on a remote TV in a different
>> room.  I would like to
>>> see if anyone has had any good luck with some
>> hardware. I know some
>>> peaple have installed mythfrontend on some out of
>> the box systems.
>>>
>>> any help would be nice
>>>
>>>
>>
>> If you are talking about SD only you should look
>> into the MediaMVP.
>>
>> The upgrade to 0.19 broke the live TV capability,
>> but I think that
>> will get resolved  in the not-too-distant future.
>>
>> You can find them on sale for $40 or less, they have
>> no hard drive
>> and have an IR remote included.
>>
>> It does a great job of playing recordings, as long
>> as they are
>> MPEG-2, and who want to watch live TV anyway.
>>
>> Sure hard to beat for the $$$.
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> Just out of curiosity, how do you figure that LiveTV
> is broken in 0.19?  It works perfectly fine for me
> (using SVN), using both my SD cards (PVR-250 and 350)
> and my HDTV card (FusionHDTV 5 Lite).  My machine is
> both a frontend and backend, but I also had success
> with seperate frontend and backend.
>

I was speaking of watching Live TV on a MediaMVP, the frontend  
firmware load has not been updated for the changes in the latest Myth  
version.

Live TV works just fine for me on my FE/BE machine.


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