[mythtv-users] Sort of OT: weird network issues

[Tom Lichti]

Tom Lichti wrote:
> Carl Reynolds wrote:
>   
>> Tom Lichti wrote:
>>   
>>     
>>> <snip...>
>>> I tried to go to 'Watch Recordings'. And there it hung. Eventually 
>>>     
>>>       
>>  > it came back with the infamous 'Can't connect to backend'
>>   
>> It sounds as if the network is working OK. Check your port settings. It 
>> sounds as if the frontend is trying to connect to the backend on the 
>> wrong port, or that port is being blocked by a firewall.
>>
>>   
>>     
> I think it may have been a bug in mythbackend somewhere, or a problem 
> with my last compile, because I tried my laptop as a frontend and it was 
> doing exactly the same thing, and nothing had changed there. I svn up'ed 
> the backend, recompiled, and it's working now. The strange thing is that 
> absolutely nothing changed on the backend between when it was working 
> and then not working.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Tom
>   
And now I find out that the card I got doesn't do XvMC (8400 GS) so now 
all that work was a waste...now I need to get a 7 series card that is 
supported...

Tom