Hi all,
Sorry if that question has already been answered, I cannot find any clue about that in the documentation or in the mailing lists, so I'd figured I just asked.
I would like to build a system with two machines:
# One machine would sit near my stereo and have the big hard drive with all the music, output the sound to the sterero, be connected to a small TV for viewing TV programs, play games, etc... It would also have the I.R. receiver for the remote and the DVD-Rom drive. # One tiny machine would sit near my video project and have the DVI output plugged into the video projector
The two machines would be connected via ethernet LAN (as well as my main computer, an Apple Mac).
Is this even possible ? I assume the first machine would be what you call the "back end" and have one "front end" running in it as well, while the second one would be a second "front end" ?
If I want to play a DVD, how would it work ? Can the back end stream the DVD data from its DVD drive to the front end on the other machine ? In which format does that happen (I don't want any re-encoding of the DVD MPEG2 data !!). Would the DVD menu keep working as well ?
I'm doing this using ccda_server which is provided by xine. IIRC, to set this up in debian you need to:
On the backend...
apt-get install libdvdcss apt-get source xine-lib cd xine-lib-1.0/misc make cdda_server ./cdda_server /dev/hdc 3000
On the frontend...
apt-get source xine-lib libdvdcss cd libdvdcss-1.2.8 patch -p1 < ../xine-lib-1.0/misc/libdvdcss-1.2.6-network.patch ./bootstrap ./configure make make install
In the mythconverg mysql database...
UPDATE
settings
SET
data = 'xine -pfhq dvd://<backend_server>:3000'
WHERE
value = 'DVDPlayerCommand'
AND
hostname = '<frontend_server>'MythDVD on the frontend should then play DVDs in the DVD drive of the backend, menus and all.
Assuming this works, you probably want to set up a startup script for cdda_server on the backend.
HTH... Jon.
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