[mythtv-users] Thin client frontend

[Mike Perkins]

Raymond Wagner wrote:
>  On 9/24/2010 12:15, Mike Perkins wrote:
>> Michelle Dupuis wrote:
>>> The Shuttle XS35GT-804  looks interesting!  Does it have enough power 
>>> to run
>>> myth properly?
>>>
>>> I also worry about putting a 500gb disk into a unit with only passive
>>> cooling...sounds like a recipe for cooking a disk
>>>
>> If it's a thin client... it shouldn't have a hard drive in it. A thin 
>> client is booted off a USB stick or a Compact Flash card or over the 
>> network.
>>
>> Try http://minimyth.org/ for the appropriate software to run on a thin 
>> client front end.
> 
> Of course if it actually were a thin client, you wouldn't be running 
> MythTV on it.  You would install Xorg and a sound server, set up 
> forwarding, and run the frontend on some central system.
> 
Been there, tried that. Don't think it can be done because you couldn't transfer 
the video data fast enough. Mythfrontend has a lot of smarts and needs to be 
near the hardware it's using. Minimyth works extremely well in that respect.

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Mike Perkins