[mythtv-users] Knoppmyth only for frontend?

[John Johnson]

You can fix you mythlink.sh file as documented on the KnoppMyth site,
then when browsing with SAMBA, go to the myth/pretty folder. There
you will find nice links to the cryptic .nuv files.

Regards,
   JJ

On 16-Jan-2005, at 11:04, Jay wrote:

> On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 09:22:58 -0700
> Mark Gardner <markgard at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Before i spend the time to download a knopmytht ISO, curious to know
>> if this senario will work.  I love simpsons, but my wife can't stand
>> them, what i would like to do is borrow my wifes windows box in the
>> office and boot knoppmyth and just have a frontend running for a short
>> time. (long enought to watch simpsons) then reboot back to windows.
>>
>> Mark Gardner
>
> "My" solution came by accident when trying WinMyth out of curiosity.
> (http://winmyth.sourceforge.net/) I wasn't able to use a WinMyth binary
> due to the backend being a recent CVS (mismatched protocol version,
> server=14, latest winmyth binary=13, etc).
>
> However, per the WinMyth/DSMyth instructions, I installed the 3ivx
> package (http://www.3ivx.com/, http://dsmyth.sourceforge.net/) .. which
> allowed the windows box to play the MPEG4 encoded .nuv files.
>
> Browsing the numeric files via Samba is ugly (as someone already
> mentioned), so I tried MythWeb.
>
> I added the server IP address and 'myth://' to line ~146 of
> mythweb/themes/Default/recorded_programs.php:
>
> echo '<a href="myth://10.0.0.123/mythweb/'.video_url() // <snip>
>
> .. browse recorded, click the picture, windows media player launches
> (because DSMyth's config has configured "myth://" protocol).
>
> ** If your myth backend is 100+ days old (proto 13), you can stop
> reading.
>
>
> In my CVS build, I commented mythtv's proto checking (mainserver.cpp,
> MainServer::HandleVersion) in a lame attempt to use the WinMyth binary.
> It didn't work, for WinMyth.
>
> The positive side effect was that DSMyth's latest binary is proto 13 as
> well, and seems to work fine communicating to a proto=14 server for
> "FileTransfer". (Read: For it to work, you'll need to have matching
> protocol versions, or comment as I have.)
>
> -Jay J
>
>
> google fodder:
> MainServer::HandleVersion - Client speaks protocol version 13 but we
> speak 14!
> MYTH_PROTO_VERSION
> c:\winnt\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
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