[mythtv] Mythchannel

Joseph A. Caputo jcaputo1 at comcast.net
Thu Jan 8 14:41:58 EST 2004


On Thursday 08 January 2004 14:02, Bert Haverkamp wrote:
>
> Btw, can anyone explain me why the setup program in the source
> directory of mythtv isn't merged in mythfrontend. It seems to me that
> one should be able to set these things from mythfrontend too.

Because it doesn't run on the frontend, it runs on the backend, mainly 
because it needs access to the tuner card device(s) and the mythbackend 
user's ${HOME} directory.  Not everyone has a single frontend/backend 
setup.

-JAC



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