[mythtv-users] mythtv-setup without GUI

[Robert Johnston]

On 18/06/2010 4:36 PM, Jason Ward wrote:
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> On 18 June 2010 10:05, Per Jørgensen <myth at pbj-design.dk
> <mailto:myth at pbj-design.dk>> wrote:
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>     The option is to forward your Xserver to another host - and run
>     mythtv-setup from that!
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> 1. Would it be possible/advisable to run a frontend like this?
> 2. Can someone direct me at instructions on how to forward X-Server?

If your host is a Windows-based system, you will need to install an 
X-server first. Xming is good, and free 
(http://www.straightrunning.com/XmingNotes/)

Once you have that, you can configure PuTTY to enable X forwarding over SSH.

If your host is a Linux or OSX based system, you can simply use "ssh -Y 
user at machinename" to connect to machinename with X forwarding.

Once you have that, it's a simple call to "mythsetup" to set things up.

While you could watch video that way, it would be done with no 
acceleration whatsoever (you'd get around 3FPS with a good connection), 
and no audio at all (In theory you could run a pulseaudio daemon on your 
local system and forward the audio to that, but Myth doesn't support 
pulseaudio at the moment), so the performance would be much less than 
stellar.