[mythtv-users] remote front-end-only packages required

[David Watkins]

On 20/10/06, Brad DerManouelian <myth at dermanouelian.com> wrote:
> On Oct 20, 2006, at 12:23 PM, Jerome Yuzyk wrote:
>
> >
> > Pardon if this is a FAQ somewhere, but I've read through the Myth
> > site and
> > the Wiki anda few other spots and haven't seen an answer or even
> > much of a
> > hint. Or maybe I just missed it.
> >
> > Now thatI have my Myth box set up and apparently functioning (ditto
> > for me)
> > I'd like to try using my main workstation for watching recordings
> > because
> > it has a bigger monitor. What I haven't seen is a description of what
> > subset of Myth I need to do this. I would be installing from Fedora
> > Core 5
> > RPMs.
>
> You just need myth frontend since you'll only be watching programs on
> that box - and enough bandwidth between your frontend and backend to
> handle the video streams. I believe if you're using ATrpms you just
> need to install mythtv-frontend, however I've never done just that
> package since I run a combo frontend/backend and my other frontend-
> only machines are Mac OS X boxes.

You pretty much need to do a full install .  You just don't need to
configure/run mysql or  mythbackend.