[mythtv-users] re: Knoppmyth only for frontend?

[Kevin Kuphal]

Brad Templeton wrote:

>On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 03:46:48PM -0800, CrAzY mAD wrote:
>  
>
>>I'm no expert in Myth, but if all you want to do it
>>watch the Simpsons on your wife's windows computer,
>>there's a simple solution.  Download mplayer, it plays
>>NUV's, 
>>(http://ftp5.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/releases/win32-beta/
>>), and just watch the stream over your network.  You
>>will have to share the dir where Myth stores all of
>>the TV recordings.  Good luck! 
>>    
>>
>
>Well, kinda.   Right now Myth uses numeric filenames so that's not
>exactly a great interface.  Anybody had any good results with
>the windows port of the mythfrontend on sourceforge?
>
>I believe there was some talk of changing the backend to give
>the files more human readable names.  That would be nice not just
>for people mounting the nuv directories over samba/nfs, but for
>general debugging and other stuff.
>  
>
There is a script in the contrib directory that will create user 
friendly names and there is also a windows program that will browse the 
databsae and display the normal descriptions for playback.

Kevin