Steve, I really like documents and howtos at this site. http://www.mythtv.info/moin.cgi/FrontPage
You will get answers to most of your questions and lot more information ! Thanks Mudit On 6/3/05, Steve Tate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is there a document available that goes through the various components > of a mythtv system and talks about various system design tradeoffs? > > I've been frustrated looking at the official documentation, which is > in FAQ format, and seems to assume people understand the basic mythtv > architecture going in. The docs talk about frontends and backends as > if everyone naturally knows that they are, but never actually explains > this. > > What I've gleaned is what defines a frontend is the ability to play > things and what defines a backend is the ability to record. But it > sure would be nice if there were a document the clearly layed out the > tasks performed by various systems so I can decide how to design my > system. > > For instance, if I have a EPIA-based box hooked up to the TV with a > tuner card in it, it can both play and record -- that makes it a > frontend and a backend, right? Can it be diskless? In other words, > could I have a "tunerless" backend, consisting of my main home network > server, and a "diskless" frontend/backend at the TV? I could put the > PVR-250 in the file server, of course, but does that mean that I'm > consuming network bandwidth with a video stream just to watch live TV > (which is why I'd want the tuner in the frontend box in the first > place)? And then I'd have problems using the remote control from the > PVR-250 as well... I'd really like a RAM-based ringbuffer for live > TV, so that doesn't hit the network at all, and then the ability to > stream pre-recorded video from the file server to the frontend. Is > that something that can be done? > > Anyway, maybe some of those questions are confused, but it's mainly > because I have a very poor mental image of the mythtv architecture, > and can't find any documentation that explains this. Does anyone know > of something decent that's out there for me to read? > > -- > > Steve Tate > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users