[mythtv-users] mythtv-setup without GUI

[Jason Ward]

On 18 June 2010 23:51, Robert Johnston <anaerin at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> 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.
>

Thanks for that, been reading up, I currently use NX NoMachine free edition
for remote desktop etc and it seems thats the best for me.
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