[mythtv-users] Frontend question

[Francesco Peeters]

On Fri, February 3, 2006 11:47, Jo Shields said:
> Stuart Fox wrote:
>
>>>Stuart Fox wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>This may be a silly question but .. does a frontend have to have a
>>>>capture
>>>>card?
>>>>
>>>>Cheers
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>A front-end *can't* have a capture card. Only a back-end.
>>>
>>>However, you can have a front-end and back-end on the same box, which
>>>sounds like what you want.
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>>
>>Not quite
>>
>>I already have a frontend/backend machine with 3 capture cards and all
>> the
>>storage that drives the main tv/home cinema etc but id like to put a
>>frontend upstairs.
>>
>>Obviously its going to need a sound and graphics card
>>
>>Cheers
>>
>>Stuart
>>
>>
>>
> So just get a teeny box like an Epia or something. I've got mythfrontend
> on my laptop, for watching things in bed (there's no TV reception
> upstairs either...)
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LOL... With WiFi and a laptop you can watch TV from your bathtub!  ;-)

That's also what I meant with my reply: A capturecard in your 'frontend'
machine with the backend running would have less latency when watching
live TV...

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