[mythtv-users] Frontend question

[Jo Shields]

Stuart Fox wrote:

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

A mythbackend's job is to provide MythTV-specific stuff - i.e. Live TV & 
recordings. Music/Video/Pictures could be (and in my case are) on a 
completely different host, including a Windows file server. There's no 
reason to try & shoehorn a few jpegs into the mythtv protocol, given 
that's not what it's there for