On 1/8/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">jonny Linux</b> <<a href="mailto:jonnylinux@gmail.com">jonnylinux@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div><br>So my question is, is it possible to use the plugins without having a mythbackend running on the network?</div></div></blockquote><div><br>
The short answer is, no. If MythVideo is set to browse mode it
doesn't need the database to look up file info although it would need
the database to look up which player to use for which filetypes or, at
the very least, the default player setting. Plus, how would it
know it should use browse mode without checking the database for the
setting that defines what mode it should run in? Not to mention
that the frontend has no way of knowing that you want it to start up
only to use MythVideo or watch a DVD. Any other frontend function
would require database access at least to check settings. <br>
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Any way you look at it, even if you didn't need a master backend
running you would at least need a running DB server. If you're
going to have a machine up 24/7 to run a DB server you might as well
just run a master backend.<br>
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HTH,<br>
Brad<br>
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