[mythtv-users] Use remote machine to control Myth frontend?

Chris Ribe chrisribe at gmail.com
Sun Jan 15 02:44:23 UTC 2006


I don't know if it will do exactly what you are looking for, but VLC (aka
VideoLan Client) might be a program to look at.

You may be able to open an audio stream on the head unit and then use the
backend system to serve the audio stream and control what audio is being
sent.

On 1/14/06, John Andersen <jsamyth at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 1/14/06, Footer <footer at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have an older machine that I'm using as a Myth box configured as
> > both a frontend and backend hooked up in my entertainment center.
> > Since it's old, it has limited storage so what I'd like to do, is use
> > a remote machine (another Linux box) to store and play music from but
> > pipe it over to the old Myth box so that it plays on my entertainment
> > center sound system.
>
> Why not just use the remote machine as a nfs server.
> Share its disk, and mount that on your Frontend/Backend
> and use that moun as your myth database.  Its
> a minimual change, because you don't even have to mess
> with your myth setup.
>
> First mount the nfs share in some temp mount point, and
> copy your mythtv files to it, then delete them fromt he
> FE/BE and mount the remote machines shared directory
> right over the old myth file location with the same names
> etc.
>
>
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