[mythtv-users] MythTV under VMWare?

[Joseph A. Caputo]

On Tuesday 20 January 2004 03:04, Scott Pouliot wrote:
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> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Mottishaw
> Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 2:28 AM
> To: 'Discussion about mythtv'
> Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] MythTV under VMWare?
>
> If you only want to watch videos on your windows machine without
> copying, wouldn't setting up samba work? nfs for that matter (unix
> tools for windows)
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Ivor Hewitt
> Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004 11:22 PM
> To: mythtv-users at mythtv.org
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV under VMWare?
>
> On Tuesday 20 January 2004 04:30, Scott Pouliot wrote:
> > Has anyone ever tried to run a MythTV front end under VMWare
> > Workstation (Virtual machine running under Windows)?  Not really
> > concerned about a back end, but it would be pretty cool to be able
> > to watch videos from my Windows box without having to copy them
> > from the Myth backend.  Someone mentioned wlan and
> > streaming.....but I haven't looked into that option at all.  A
> > friend of mine uses VMWare for a bunch of stuff so he had me
> > download the trial to check it out and a light bulb lit up in my
> > head  ;-)
>
> You might want to have a play with Ian Calfield's Myth/Cygwin patch
> that went to the dev list yesterday. I haven't had time to play with
> it yet. Looks like fun though.
>
>
> I suppose it would, but the filenames don't help me identify which
> vid is which  ;-)

The Myth DirectShow filters (http://dsmyth.sourceforge.net) support 
metadata retrieval in an Explorer window from the Myth database.

Note that if your recordings are MPEG-2 (i.e., PVR-x50, M-179), then you 
don't need the filter to play them (though it should still get the 
metadata for you).

-JAC