[mythtv-users] IPad and mythtv.

[jedi]

On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 08:34:24PM +1200, Steve Hodge wrote:
> On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 5:25 PM, jedi <jedi at mishnet.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 03:14:18PM +1200, Steve Hodge wrote:
> > > On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 3:09 AM, jedi <jedi at mishnet.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 01:03:54PM +1000, Jean-Yves Avenard wrote:
> > > > > Hi
> > > > >
> > > > > On 24 May 2010 12:36, jedi <jedi at mishnet.org> wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > >    An iPad doesn't meet the technical requirements of a MythTV
> > > > frontend.
> > > > >
> > > > > looks like you're the one defining what the "technical requirements
> > > > > are" ... thanks for letting us now of your new role :P
> > > >
> > > >     "plays what MythTV generates" seems terribly obvious actually.
> > > >
> > > >     If it can't play recordings, how can you call it a MythTV device?
> > > >
> > >
> > > Like Jean-Yves I had a 1GHz PIII as a frontend a while back. Are you
> > saying
> > > wasn't a MythTV device? Because anything that thing could play back an
> > iPad
> > > could playback. My current system can't handle the HD video broadcast in
> > > this country. Is that also not a MythTV device?
> >
> >     If you can't play what you record then it's a bit academic.
> >
> 
> So you're claiming that the iPad can't ever be used to play MythTV files
> purely because the code doesn't currently exist? Because obviously the
> hardware capabilities are sufficient for at least some people's setups. Your

    There's nothing obvious about it.

    You're trying to stretch quite optimisitic assumptions and even then you
are only talking about matching some hardware that is very much out of date
and rather limited. Waste your time if you really insist. You're going to be
disappointed when you see what the hardware is actually capable of.