----- "John Oliver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, I know one could take a recorded show and share it with > BitTorrent > or something. I'm wondering if this functionality has been > integrated > into MythTV so it "just works" without any intermediate steps.
This functionality is fundamental to MythTV's engineering. The software is split into two parts - the "backend" which takes care of scheduling and video capture, and the "frontend" which is responsible for playback on your screen. The one-box MythTV installations you see are simply one machine running both the backend and frontend portions. But you're free to mix and match the pieces as you wish, having multiple backends that work together to record all your shows (though a single multi-tuner backend can do the same), to having little fanless frontend machines spread throughout the house, one per TV, all feeding off a headless backend stored in the basement. For a simple MythTV experience, I highly recommend trying Mythbuntu (http://www.mythbuntu.org/). It's a version of Ubuntu that has all the pieces you need, and a convenient setup application that can help you build backend and frontend machines in the layout you prefer (including diskless frontend clients). -- Joshua Penix http://www.binarytribe.com Binary Tribe Linux Integration Services & Network Consulting -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
