[mythtv-users] Running TV part as plugin in mythfrontend

[J. Donavan Stanley]

Bruce Markey wrote:

> Robert Rozman wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I saw that I can run plugins as "standalone" apps with for instance
>> "mythfrontend music".
>
>
> or "mythfrontend mythmusic"
> or "cd /usr/local/bin ; ln -s mythfrontend mythmusic"
> then just "mythmusic"
>
>> I'd like to do that also with TV part. Can this be done already and 
>> added in
>> future ?
>
>
> Music, weather, DVD and so on are plugins but the TV part
> is the main program itself. running "mythfrontend" is the
> menu driven DVR. There is also an executable "mythtv" that
> runs just the live (time-shifting) TV. This can get the on
> screen guide, change channels and such but can't go to the
> menus to choose pre-recorded shows or anything like that.


But you can do "mythtv <filename>" to view a file.