[mythtv-users] Mythtv over remote X connection

[Michael T. Dean]

On 02/26/2007 02:11 PM, Sven Nielsen wrote:
> I am trying to run mythtv in a remote X session on a thin client.
> For live playback I need to disable video overlay mode (I think)
> of the mythtv internal player (overlay does not work in remote
> X session.)
>
> I need to do this since the thin client I use in my living room is not
> powerful enough to run a local X server and decode the video locally
> (250 Mhz AMD, diskless, root file system mounted over nfs).
>
> I can, without problems, connect to my server, start a remote X session, 
> and then watch a movie with mplayer in that session by using video out
> driver x11 (software scaling) and switching to 640x480 resolution for 
> video playback.
>
> Question: Is there a way to disable overlay video in mythtv without
> recompiling?

NO_XV=1 mythfrontend

But, I doubt you'll have the bandwidth for more than a few frames per 
second...  The feature was created more for getting screenshots of 
playback and OSD's than for doing remote video playback.

Mike