[mythtv-users] Myth on a Laptop

[jedi at mishnet.org]

> Brian Wood wrote:
>> Yan Seiner wrote:
>>
>>> Several people have played with "Myth-to-go" over the years, myself
>>> included.  There just doesn't seem to be enough critical mass, or a dev
>>> with enough time and desire, to put it all together.  (I'm not
>>> criticizing here; I'm one of those who has the need but not the time /
>>> knowledge / desire to get it done.)
>>
>> I suspect there's a lack of a lot of interest.
>>
>
> Yup.
>
>> What might you want to do "on the go"?
>>
>> Watch recordings? You can do that easily by just transferring the files.

    Not so easy.

    First you have to map the file names to something interesting. Then
it's relatively straightforward matter to transfer them. Although even
then you've got network file share setup issues. The appropriate type of
shared filesystem may not be already setup.

    Something that I see as being potentially quite useful is a sort of
"iTunes" style app that serves as a manager for mobile devices like ipods.
This would allow you to build a iTunes-esque repository on some other box
and push the related files to the mobile devices. Mebbe even handle the
transcode step at that point.

    It would be more of like the Win32 MythPlayer, not something that
runs fullscreen and something that's written more with Win32 and OSX
in mind so that people could manage their files with whatever they
run on the desktop.

     Could also be another regular plugin or something that runs in
mythweb. A non-webbased control console could be useful too.

>>
>> Schedule recordings? You can do that now with a web browser.
>>
>> You can grab any recordings not already on the laptop over the net.
>>
>> Anything having to do with optical media would require physical access
>> to the main machine.
>>
>> Maybe tuning and watching live TV (a la Slingbox) would be desired, but
>> by how many?
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