[mythtv-users] Mythtv away from home.

[Jesse F. Hughes]

Yan Seiner <yan at seiner.com> writes:

> Dan Ritter wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 09:27:15PM -0400, Jesse F. Hughes wrote:
>>   
>>> I am running mythbackend on my desktop machine at home.  I'd like to
>>> be able to transfer the recordings to a portable hard drive so that I
>>> can use mythtv when I'm away from home.  To this end, I'd like to run
>>> mythbackend on a laptop that has no TV card at all.
>>>     
>>
>> Why? Why not just use the link feature of mythrenamei.pl to produce
>> useful human-readable filenames, then copy the files over to
>> your laptop, and then use the player of your choice to play
>> them?
>>   
> The same interface?  Too many files?  Want to keep metadata?

Right, though Dan has a point: that does seem to be the simplest way.

I guess I didn't know that most players can play .nuv files.

Still, if it's not too much work, I'd like to use the mythtv interface
for consistency's sake.

-- 
Jesse F. Hughes
"Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and
if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
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