[mythtv-users] 0.25 mpeg2 lossless transcoding works again! hallelujah! except...

[Andy Sheen]

Mike Perkins wrote on Wed 14 Mar at 18:38 UK time
> On 14/03/12 15:30, jk90090 wrote:
>> Moving it to mythtv-setup is the wrong direction IMHO.  I feel it's bad
>> design to move more things to that interface backend.  There really
>> should only be *one* graphical interface for Mythtv (not two!), with all
>> setup screens within it.  The mythtv-setup should be able to but run in
>> text-only mode for the very basic setup (DB setup) and then use the
>> frontend for further configuration like provider, card, channel setup,
>> etc.  Without this, you can't run a windows-less backend and that feels
>> to me like it defeats the purpose of having a split between frontend and
>> backend.  This might end up driving me crazy enough to go about adding
>> this improvement to the development tree for 0.26.
>>
> "Without this, you can't run a windows-less backend"
> 
> Oh, yes you can! ssh -X or ssh -Y can do this perfectly well from any other 
> host. I believe you can use vnc or other methods too. ssh is the way I've 
> maintained my MBE for years, and it doesn't even have X installed.
> 
> The way forward seems to be a separate web interface, which I understand is 
> planned for a future release. Till then, mythtv-setup over ssh works well enough.
> 

It's interesting how people perceive things. I only run myth backends,
no front ends at all. I'd really like the ability to run mythtv-setup in
a terminal without having to run Cygwin X on my Windows PC to enable
display of the setup screen. People (i.e. me!) were building menuing UIs
using curses some 20 years ago (and before anyone suggests I add a patch
- it was 20 years ago....). That's all you'd need for mythtv-setup as
far as I can tell.

I'm currently using 0.23 so this may have changed, but it would also be
good to have things like default recording settings (like pre and post
record) settable from the backend.