[mythtv-users] Myth on a Laptop

[Bill Omer]

On 10/1/07, John Drescher <drescherjm at gmail.com> wrote:
> I may be wrong but I think the discussion about 127.0.0.1 is incorrect
> because it appears that  is what he wants from the following lines:
>
> > I don't have any tuner cards, and don't need any, I just
> > want to be able to take what I have on my home system with me
> > periodically.
> >
>
> I doubt he is looking to remotely connect his laptop to his master
> backend when he travels and  stream videos over the internet. I assume
> he wants some way to export a portion of his recorded programs to the
> hard drive on the laptop and view them in MythTV that is not connected
> to the master backend that records the shows.
>
> John



All of this just really sounds like more work than its worth.  If all
he wants to do is watch shows when he travels, why even other with
setting up a slave backend on the laptop?  Why not just archive the
shows with MythArchive and copy them over to the laptop?  Seems much
easier to me.

-Bill