<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>Fixing the top-posting:</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Hi folks,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">This might be a stupid question but I thought I'd ask anyway...<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I've just recently acquired a new LCD HDTV. My eventual plan is to<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">build a MythTV box which I can put a couple of tuner cards in to record<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">my favourite TV programmes etc.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">However at the moment that really isn't an option (funds and wife-to-be<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">don't allow).<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">My desktop PC however has got a dual core CPU and a whole load of memory<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">which I'm sure isn't being used to it's full potential at the moment.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Rather than use my desktop PC as a complete MythTV box, I was wondering<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">if it was possible to just install the front end for playing my existing<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">video files, DVDs, music files and emulators with the second DVI output<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">going to the LCD TV.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Does this sound feasible or would I have to also install the complete<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">MythTV backend too?<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Ta,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Rob<br></blockquote><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#006312"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></font></div></blockquote><br></div><div>On Feb 15, 2008, at 10:57 AM, Stuart Larson wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>You would only run mythfrontend, and point it to your backend's IP (you<br>may need to reconfigure your backend to listen on something other than<br>it's loopback (127.0.0.1) through mythtv-setup, first). You can also do<br>commflag/transcode jobs if you wish, just run mythjobqueue in the<br>background.</div></blockquote><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div>You misread his situation (and top-posted to boot).</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>The frontend needs to connect to a backend in order to function. However, there are plenty of linux tools available for playing your current media through your video card and to your fancy new TV. :)</div><div>Not sure what distro you're using, but many of the popular ones come with media players when you select the option to install them. You can use those until you are able to get a dedicated MythTV system set up.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Is there a reason you don't want to install a backend along with the frontend on your machine? If you're not recording/commflagging/transcoding, etc, etc. it shouldn't take up many resources. Even MySQL will sit mostly idle in your situation.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>-Brad</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></body></html>