[mythtv-users] Best way to integrate a Netflix feed into Myth ?

[Michael T. Dean]

On 08/22/2011 02:19 PM, Eric Sharkey wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 9:20 PM, Linuxguy123 wrote:
>> There is no need to record movies when you can get them any time on
>> Netflix.
>>
>> I need to "capture" the Netflix stream so that I can distribute it to
>> the TVs around the house.
> The closest way to do that would be to use LiveTV mode.
>
> Ideally, there'd be a better way to do this, not just for Netflix, but
> also for On-Demand content from a cable STB and such.  It would be
> better if mythTV had a pass-through mode that disabled buffering to
> disk, eliminating the ability to pause/record/rewind but providing
> lower latency playback of the content and a way to pass through remote
> control commands from the frontend to the STB/appliance, but nothing
> like that exists right now.  If only there were more hours in the
> day...
>

MythTV is a networked Digital Video Recorder.  If you want a 
non-networked (since you can't do passthrough over the network) non-DVR 
application, run one instead of/in addition to MythTV.  :)

Mike