[mythtv-users] Newbie questions, but not stupid ones (I hope)

[Warren]

I go into "Watch TV" and it returns right back to the menu.

So you are saying that (1) I do not have to nfs mount anything (which is
good - I would rather firewall the ports) and (2) you can watch live tv,
change channels, etc from remote boxes?

W

Dave Sherohman wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 08:41:17AM -0500, Warren wrote:
>   
>> (2) Is there a way to watch live TV on a remote mythtv box that does not
>> have a card in it - in other words, use the video capture card from the
>> server to watch live TV from a remote location.  Since the front and
>> back ends are separate anyway and I have /mnt/store mounted locally
>> through nfs, it seems to me this should be possible, and that perhaps I
>> just missed something.
>>     
>
> I have a couple remote frontends set up, with nothing NFS mounted at
> all, and the backend streams live TV to them without any hassles or
> needing to do anything special, although it doesn't work so well for
> my laptop (the wireless doesn't have enough bandwidth to keep up).
>
> Have you tried it?  If it doesn't work, what does it do instead?
>
>   

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