[mythtv-users] camping/ rvining

[Michael T. Dean]

On 11/12/2014 02:10 AM, Joseph Fry wrote:
>
> First of all.. if your traveling, odds are your not taking your tuners 
> with you, and even if you did, you would have to change lineups etc.  
> So safe to assume that your not going to be recording in offline mode.
>
> Take the recording capability away from mythtv, and now you have a 
> decent media player, but there are tons of those.... even some 
> exceptional ones.
>
> I would say the best bet is to either mythlink the recordings out and 
> rsync the stuff you want to a mobile system

Agreed--and if you use a format like 
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/MythVideo_File_Parsing

> and run XBMC or something.  Or use Plex.

You could even use mythfrontend's Video Library with complete metadata.

> I can see no real advantage to an offline frontend over any other 
> media player.

Right, but if you want to stick with a UI you know, you can always 
create an "offline" MythTV system (completely separate from your main 
system and--at least while we still require tuners for backends--using a 
demo tuner) so you can run mythfrontend and use Video Library.  There's 
really no benefit to putting the recordings in "Watch Recordings" on the 
offline system.

Mike