[mythtv] Server - client concept of MythVideo, MythMusic, MythGallery

[Raymond Wagner]

On 6/19/2010 13:47, Joachim Langenbach wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> is there a plan, that MythVideo, MythMusic and MythGallery can extend the
> mythbackend to stream the content from the backend server to the frontends?
>    

Great idea! MythVideo has supported streaming content from the 'Videos' 
storage group for well over a year now in trunk.  The feature also made 
it into the 0.22 and 0.23 releases.  MythMusic is currently undergoing a 
rewrite, with one of the planned features being access to content over 
storage groups.

> To view DVD, a switch between local cdrom device and remote device would be
> greate too, because many notebooks does not have a cdrom device, but the
> backend can have one and watching dvd on all stations will be possible.
>    

One of the limitations of the current implementation in MythVideo is 
that DVD playback will not work remotely.  This is a limitation of the 
3rd party library pulled in for decryption and menu handling, and 
currently affects remote ISO and VIDEO_TS folder playback.