[mythtv-users] Myth on a Laptop

[Brian Wood]

John Drescher wrote:
> I may be wrong but I think the discussion about 127.0.0.1 is incorrect
> because it appears that  is what he wants from the following lines:
> 
>> I don't have any tuner cards, and don't need any, I just
>> want to be able to take what I have on my home system with me
>> periodically.
>>
> 
> I doubt he is looking to remotely connect his laptop to his master
> backend when he travels and  stream videos over the internet. I assume
> he wants some way to export a portion of his recorded programs to the
> hard drive on the laptop and view them in MythTV that is not connected
> to the master backend that records the shows.

In that case 127.0.0.1 is still not the answer, at least for
transporting the files.

The answer would depend on how much frontend functionality he really
wants on the laptop. This could range from none - in which case all he
has to do is copy the files over and play them with VLC or the like, to
a fully functioning F/E, in which case he would have to talk to the
database in one way or another, or copy it or a subset of it to the laptop.

beww