[mythtv-users] Multiple FE with diffrent configurations
Michael T. Dean
mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Sun Nov 20 13:48:13 EST 2005
Ricky Schneberger wrote:
>I'm using a single backend and multiple frontends. The problem I have is that
>some of my clients har connected to the backend with a limited bandwidth.
>That means that I want different livetv-configurations depending of witch
>client are connecting to the BE.
>
>
Don't know.
>I also wonder whats the difference between watching a recorded tvshow and just
>an mpegmovie. Both shows resides om the BE. From an remote FE I can watch the
>recorded tvshow without any NFS/SMB-mount to the BE, but if I want to watch
>the MPEGmovie I must first do a mount.
>
>
The recordings are streamable by the mythbackend process for playback by
the mythfrontend process. The videos ("mpegmovie") are played by a
frontend-only plugin, MythVideo, which is usually configured to use an
external media player (like xine or MPlayer). Since NFS/Samba are so
easy to set up on *nix, it doesn't make sense to add code to allow
streaming to whichever player the user decides he/she wants to use.
Mike
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