[mythtv-users] Can this be done, if yes, HOW ?

[belcampo]

Robert Moss wrote:
> As I understand it, you want to ssh in and play a file on your
> mythbackend server, but you want to select the file via SSH instead of
> the menus?
Not instead of the menus, I now have a little script which has the name 
of the backend
-----
#!/bin/sh
ssh `basename $0` $*
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it accepts a command which is mythfrontend. I have ssh keys and 
therefore I can login passwordless.
'server mythfrontend'
gives me mythfrontend on any X capable client. I can browse the menu 
perfectly in recordings I can watch the 'preview' everything is fine.
But as mentioned by several people you can't get the uncompressed data 
to your client this way.
A wanted option would be that instead of playing on the backend and 
forwarding to the client, the file would be played on the clients 
mplayer/xine/vlc or whatever.

An option like redirecting the output to a PVR-350, but then to the 
clients-mediaplayer

> 
> I don't think you can SSH in as mythtv, so I chose to use root, but you
> should create your own user with sudo access
> 
> ssh root at ip.of.mythbackend 'su - mythtv -c "export DISPLAY=:0.0; mplayer
> /path/to/file"'
> DSPLAY=:0.0 means the local X connection
> 
> You can replace mplayer with the mythtv mplayer-resume.pl file also
> 
> If you are talking about playing the video on the mythbackend server and
> forwarding the video over ssh/X forwarding to your local machine, then
> that will not work very well: the uncompressed video feed is huge and
> would saturate you connection giving you very choppy video and possibly
> inaccurate colours.  You're better off sharing the directory via nfs or
> smb as Brad says, or copy the file locally via SCP (scp
> user at host:/directory/file /local/directory/file) and play it locally
> 
> Even if you were on local gigabit ethernet, playing a video file over
> ssh/X would be awful -- SSH would be encrypting the data, your end would
> be decrypting,then displaying locally at maybe a few frames per second
> 
> 
> On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:42:11 -0700, "Brad DerManouelian"
> <myth at dermanouelian.com> said:
>> On Oct 30, 2008, at 2:34 PM, belcampo wrote:
>>
>>> What I would like is the following:
>>> ssh ip.of.mythbackend mythfrontend ;select video I'm interested in
>>> local mplayer 'the-selected-file'
>>> after exit
>>> ssh ip.of.mythbackend mythfrontend ;again
>>> quit mythfrontend
>>> back in my host system.
>>>
>>> The only thing needed on the frontend is ssh mplayer/xine and X
>>>
>>> This way every X capable system (OSX, M$ with Xming and linux of  
>>> course,
>>> and maybe PopCornHour et all with added X) would be able to use this.
>> So you just want to be able to browse the files on the remote system?  
>> You can use SMB or NFS along with mythrename.pl --link to get a list  
>> of files named in the format of your choice. Then just point your  
>> player to the program you want.
>>
>> -Brad
>>
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