[mythtv-users] How to play music/videos (mythvideo/mythmusic) on remote mythfrontend

William Munson william_munson at bellsouth.net
Sun Nov 11 11:03:19 UTC 2007


Ralf Kleineisel wrote:
> Ma Begaj wrote:
>
>   
>> So altogether, MythTv is not able to stream anything else than
>> recordings? And the description from the wiki about "you can share
>> MythTv media files" is only talking about recordings (because
>> everything else is part of frontend plugins)?
>>     
>
> I don't understand why recordings and video files are treated seperately 
> in mythtv at all. After all, both are just video files. I think it would 
> be much better to integrate both into the same interface.
>
>   

It goes back to the very early days of Myth development. The playback of 
tv and videos were handled by different programs (written by different 
people) and it would take a rather large rewrite of myth code to change 
it today so this is how it is.  It is not at all hard to map the 
appropriate directory via NFS at which time your issue goes away.

Bill




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