[mythtv-users] OT DVD ripping software

[John Pilkington]

On 29/10/14 18:29, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 10/29/2014 11:13 AM, jedi wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 01:20:35PM +0000, Simon Hobson wrote:
>>> Michael T. Dean wrote:
>>>
>>>> If only there were a way to just play it off the disc...
>>> But where's the fun in that ;-)
>>      That's assuming the frontend in question even has an optical
>> drive to begin with.
>
> Doesn't current MythTV allow playing back DVDs across the network (i.e.
> remote frontend without optical drive plays DVD that's in the drive of a
> backend system)?  I could have sworn that patch was put in quite some
> time ago.
>
> Mike

The basic problem is with the jewel-case LIRC driver..