[mythtv-users] Straighten me out here?

[Ryszard]

thinking about streaming to a windows client, and a little out of the
scope to myth, but have you tried vls/vlc? i've successfully watched a
video streaming from my linux host to a windows client...


On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 09:35:35 -0400, Christopher Flynn
<flynnguy at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 14:44:10 +0200, j2 <spamfilter2 at mupp.net> wrote:
> > >I noticed later you have a 900GB system which
> > > if it's running linux, you could always use NTFS for the video.
> >
> > NTFS? Uhm, do you mean NFS? Or am i missing something here? (Yes, it is a
> > Linux box).
> D'oh, yes NFS.... I still need to wake up this morning.
> 
> > Ah, but if all i want to do is play what i recorded with MythTV, it isnt an
> > issue?
> > But, what if i want to watch DVD's as well, then it isnt a good choise?
> I'm not sure because I don't have one but I am going to guess that
> you'd be better with something else if you wanted to watch dvds. If
> all you want to do is play what you recorded it's not an issue. From
> what I understand the PVR-350 will work to watch DVDs but you may end
> up dropping frames. How bad will this be? I don't know. Perhaps
> someone with a PVR-350 can chime in here.
> 
> > > lirc works well and integrates well with mythtv. The IR reciever that
> > > comes with the PVR-250/350 works well. I got the PVR-250MCE which
> > > doesn't have one and built a serial IR reciever for ~$10.
> >
> > I was more thinking that i want MytTV to control my set top box for
> > recording.
> Ah yes, I don't have this working myself because I'm just using
> regular cable but it should work using an ir blaster. Also some cable
> boxes have a serial port that you can use to control it that way.
> 
> 
> > Thats actually not for me. I told a friend that i was pondering building a
> > MythTV-box, he was a bit intrigued, but wanted to know if he could build one
> > as well, and stream video via WLAN to his laptop. But my friend is really a
> > Windows-only user, so, if there isnt a stable-and-native solution, it
> > probably isnt for him yet.
> Well the backend will probably never run on windows so if he wanted
> something like that I would look at sage tv: http://www.sage.tv/ I
> don't know what streaming options there are but I know it runs on
> windows. Mythtv really isn't for windows only people. (at least
> windows only people who don't want to learn linux)
> 
> 
> > I think ill try Debian here as well, i am guessing that it cant really be
> > THAT hard,.
> It's not, just follow the directions. ;-)
> 
> 
> 
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