[mythtv-users] Frontend question

[Stuart Fox]

> On 03/02/06, Stuart Fox <stuart at dontuse.ms> wrote:
>>
>> > Stuart Fox wrote:
>> >
>> >>>On Fri, February 3, 2006 11:47, Jo Shields said:
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>>Stuart Fox wrote:
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>>>>Stuart Fox wrote:
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>This may be a silly question but .. does a frontend have to have
>> a
>> >>>>>>>capture
>> >>>>>>>card?
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>Cheers
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>A front-end *can't* have a capture card. Only a back-end.
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>>However, you can have a front-end and back-end on the same box,
>> which
>> >>>>>>sounds like what you want.
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>> >>>>>Not quite
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>I already have a frontend/backend machine with 3 capture cards and
>> all
>> >>>>>the
>> >>>>>storage that drives the main tv/home cinema etc but id like to put
>> a
>> >>>>>frontend upstairs.
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>Obviously its going to need a sound and graphics card
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>Cheers
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>Stuart
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>So just get a teeny box like an Epia or something. I've got
>> >>>> mythfrontend
>> >>>>on my laptop, for watching things in bed (there's no TV reception
>> >>>>upstairs either...)
>> >>>>_____________________________
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>LOL... With WiFi and a laptop you can watch TV from your bathtub!
>> ;-)
>> >>>
>> >>>That's also what I meant with my reply: A capturecard in your
>> 'frontend'
>> >>>machine with the backend running would have less latency when
>> watching
>> >>>live TV...
>> >>>
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>> >>
>> >>Last question then, (hopefully) do I need nfs/samba or does the
>> backend
>> >>stream to the frontend?
>> >>
>> >>Cheers
>> >>
>> >
>> > Myth protocol. No need for NFS or Samba.
>
> That's for recorded programmes.
>
> The plugins (videos, music, gallery) do need NFS/SAMBA
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Thats interesting and not a problem.

Is that a design feature or are all plugins likely to change to stream
using the myth protocol? (theoretical discussion not a dig:) )

Cheers


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