[mythtv-users] remote display from frontend

[HP-mini]

On Fri, 2015-10-09 at 21:38 +0100, Mike Perkins wrote:
> On 09/10/15 19:07, John P Poet wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 11:53 AM Eric Sharkey <eric at lisaneric.org> wrote:
> >
> >> On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 4:26 PM, Ross Boylan
> >> <rossboylan at stanfordalumni.org> wrote:
> >>> I suppose if I were adventurous I could install X in the VM
> >>> and attempt to view the VM display "directly" via VirtualBox (the
> >>> virtualization software).  I suspect that wouldn't work well.
> >>
> >> That'll work a lot better than X11 forwarding.
> >>
> >
> > Like Eric said, letting VirtualBox handle it is probably the best, but if
> > that does not work for some reason you could try x2go. I use it for remote
> > desktops and it works really well -- most of the time.  It does not work
> > with the latest versions of Gnome, KDE or LXQt.  It works pretty well with
> > LXDE, and such, though.
> >
> That's no better than X11 forwarding. The problem is that mythtv needs to access the video driver 
> and resources directly to compose each frame, and it can't do that remotely. Even if somebody found 
> a way to make it happen it would be so complex you'd probably drop frames very quickly.
> 
> It is much easier to send the video over the interface, whether real network or virtual network 
> (which myth does), and compose it at the frontend just before it goes out to monitor or TV.
> 

Virtualbox VGA pass-through with 2nd VGA adaptor (unused/claimed) by the
host ?