[mythtv] Front ends for other machines

[Joseph A. Caputo]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-dev-bounces at snowman.net
> [mailto:mythtv-dev-bounces at snowman.net]On Behalf Of mark at zzo.com
> Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 2:25 PM
> To: mythtv-dev at snowman.net
> Subject: [mythtv] Front ends for other machines
>
>
> So I'd just like to watch pre-recorded shows (LiveTV would be
> nice too of course) on my FreeBSD box.
> After blowing NuppelVideoRecorder & RTjpeg out of the build
> & making some other changes I was actually able to get the myth
> frontend up & connecting to my myth backend box.
> It can play recorded shows - & pretty much do everything except
> watch LiveTV.
> The only hitch is that it's slow - the video & audio hiccup about
> every 3-5 secodns for a second or so.
> It's a 1.6Ghz Athlon (not XP) - & the CPU runs at about 80% & it's
> got MMX support, Xv, and shared memory support.
> I just tried Thor's 'skip' patch but that didn't help.  It's a 100Mbps
> switched ethernet connection so I don't think that's it.
> The files are mpeg4 encoded at 480x480 at 4400 target bitrate.
> Too much maybe for my CPU?  64MB RAM.
> Any thoughts?
>     M

Sounds like you need more RAM... 64MB is pretty skimpy these days.  I hope
you just forgot to type the '0' on the end of that...

>
> PS I think there needs to be a MUCH cleaner separation between the
> frontend & backends - maybe like 2 totally separte packages with a
> 'common' package.  When just trying to make a front end there's way
> too many dependencies on stuff just for backends...
>

I agree... it would be great if you could build just a frontend for a system
that didn't have V4L, like BSD, Cygwin or Darwin... ha! a Myth frontend
running native (via Cygwin) on a Wintel box... or a Mac running OSX...  now
that's cool.

I would think it would just be a matter of splitting libmythtv.

-Joe C.