[mythtv-users] Frontend question

[Jo Shields]

Stuart Fox wrote:

>>Stuart Fox wrote:
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>>>This may be a silly question but .. does a frontend have to have a
>>>capture
>>>card?
>>>
>>>Cheers
>>>
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>>>
>>A front-end *can't* have a capture card. Only a back-end.
>>
>>However, you can have a front-end and back-end on the same box, which
>>sounds like what you want.
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>Not quite
>
>I already have a frontend/backend machine with 3 capture cards and all the
>storage that drives the main tv/home cinema etc but id like to put a
>frontend upstairs.
>
>Obviously its going to need a sound and graphics card
>
>Cheers
>
>Stuart
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So just get a teeny box like an Epia or something. I've got mythfrontend 
on my laptop, for watching things in bed (there's no TV reception 
upstairs either...)