On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 23:10 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: > On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 00:08 -0400, Justin Hart wrote: > > > Oh, I see your question. I asked this myself a few months ago. Yes - > > > it does assume thee's a backend somewhere on the network, but > > > apparently you have to have MySQL on the frontend machine also to be > > > able to send MySQL commands to the backend. All the 'frontendonly' USE > > > flag does (I think - I've never read the ebuild) is to not build the > > > actual backend code. It still requires MySQL be installed because it > > > assumes you will talk to a MySQL based backend. > > > > > > > That wasn't his question. We wants to play video, but not record > > video. He wants to run the frontend with no backend anywhere.
> > in point of fact there must be a mysql server to connect to somewhere on > the network. mysql stores the frontend settings. AFAIK you do not > actually need the backend running, but you do need the mysql server > running. > Yep.. got mysql running and mythtv comes up. > Now back to the point, did the OP set the directory where his video > files reside in the mythtv setup? Yeah.. I set it up but unfortunately the browser doesn't recognise any of the files. I'm not sure why. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
