[mythtv-users] 0.25 mpeg2 lossless transcoding works again! hallelujah! except...

[Mike Perkins]

On 14/03/12 20:13, jk90090 wrote:
> On 3/14/12 11:38 AM, Mike Perkins wrote:
>> On 14/03/12 15:30, jk90090 wrote:
>>> Moving it to mythtv-setup is the wrong direction IMHO.  I feel it's bad
>>> design to move more things to that interface backend.  There really
>>> should only be *one* graphical interface for Mythtv (not two!), with all
>>> setup screens within it.  The mythtv-setup should be able to but run in
>>> text-only mode for the very basic setup (DB setup) and then use the
>>> frontend for further configuration like provider, card, channel setup,
>>> etc.  Without this, you can't run a windows-less backend and that feels
>>> to me like it defeats the purpose of having a split between frontend and
>>> backend.  This might end up driving me crazy enough to go about adding
>>> this improvement to the development tree for 0.26.
>>>
>> "Without this, you can't run a windows-less backend"
>>
>> Oh, yes you can! ssh -X or ssh -Y can do this perfectly well from any other
>> host. I believe you can use vnc or other methods too. ssh is the way I've
>> maintained my MBE for years, and it doesn't even have X installed.
>>
>> The way forward seems to be a separate web interface, which I understand is
>> planned for a future release. Till then, mythtv-setup over ssh works well enough.
>>
> Mike, correct me if I'm wrong but I believe that still requires you to
> have the Xlibs on the backend... When I say windows-less, I mean
> completely devoid of X.
>
That's an interesting one. It seems that currently there *are* X libs on the 
box, although I don't run X on it at all.

This is a relatively new installation (8/9 weeks) since I migrated from Mandriva 
to Debian. I originally set it up from the command line using apt-get and just 
pulling the minimum required to get things going: mysql, mythtv-backend, etc.

A problem I faced was that the default scheme was unfriendly - we use 
Mythcenter-wide exclusively here. This made using mythtv-setup a pain, so I 
installed mythtv-frontend as well (to get scheme selection). I guess this pulled 
in all the associated X stuff.

Of course, no X has ever run on this box. It has only ever been accessed 
remotely, except when I was doing the original network-based installation.

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Mike Perkins