[mythtv-users] Mythtv over remote X connection

[Sven Nielsen]

Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 02/26/2007 02:11 PM, Sven Nielsen wrote:
>   
>> I am trying to run mythtv in a remote X session on a thin client.
>> For live playback I need to disable video overlay mode (I think)
>> of the mythtv internal player (overlay does not work in remote
>> X session.)
>>
>> I need to do this since the thin client I use in my living room is not
>> powerful enough to run a local X server and decode the video locally
>> (250 Mhz AMD, diskless, root file system mounted over nfs).
>>
>> I can, without problems, connect to my server, start a remote X session, 
>> and then watch a movie with mplayer in that session by using video out
>> driver x11 (software scaling) and switching to 640x480 resolution for 
>> video playback.
>>
>> Question: Is there a way to disable overlay video in mythtv without
>> recompiling?
>>     
>
> NO_XV=1 mythfrontend
>
> But, I doubt you'll have the bandwidth for more than a few frames per 
> second...  The feature was created more for getting screenshots of 
> playback and OSD's than for doing remote video playback.
>
> Mike
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>   

thanks for your help!

did not solve the problem however :-(
Using NO_XV=1 leads to frequent mythfrontend crashes, and
I still get no picture.

I will stick to using mplayer for watching TV on the thin client
and remote x session. This works nice when I switch to a very
low screen resolution.

But, this leads to another problem:
Now, before starting mplayer, I need to tell mythbackend to STOP
collecting EIT Data so that it will free the card and I can access it 
with mplayer.

Q: Anyone any idea, how I can command mythbackend to stop
collecting EIT data and free the dvb card?

Regards
sven