[mythtv-users] Myth on a Laptop

[Michael T. Dean]

On 10/01/2007 12:12 PM, Brian Wood wrote:
> Yan Seiner wrote:
>> Several people have played with "Myth-to-go" over the years, myself 
>> included.  There just doesn't seem to be enough critical mass, or a dev 
>> with enough time and desire, to put it all together.  (I'm not 
>> criticizing here; I'm one of those who has the need but not the time / 
>> knowledge / desire to get it done.)
>>     

See http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/289838#289838 and
the rest of the thread.  Anyone who really wants this to happen should
work out the issues with embedded MySQL--at which point this becomes an
easy-to-finish feature.

> I suspect there's a lack of a lot of interest.
>
> What might you want to do "on the go"?
>
> Watch recordings? You can do that easily by just transferring the files.
>   

But in doing so, you lose the nice MythTV "Watch Recordings" UI. 
(Though I'm happy with a file-browser-based UI when using files named
with mythrename.pl's '%T-%oY%om%od-%S' format specifier (ordered by
original airdate).)  You also lose MythTV's bookmarks, and--most
importantly--commercial flagging info.  (Though I'm happy with the
settings I have for jumps in xine--which allow me to skip any commercial
break in only a few keystrokes.)

> Schedule recordings? You can do that now with a web browser.
>
> You can grab any recordings not already on the laptop over the net.
>
> Anything having to do with optical media would require physical access
> to the main machine.
>   

Agreed.  Not useful.

> Maybe tuning and watching live TV (a la Slingbox) would be desired, but
> by how many?

This would probably be most easily configured/accessed via the MythWeb
streaming that's currently being implemented.  It may not be available
by the time 0.21 is released, but eventually...  In the meantime, it's
not too hard to do with external tools (if your system has the power to
handle real-time transcoding to a lower res/bitrate--which may not be
the case for those of us recording HDTV).

Mike