> I'm currently thinking about what I want to put in my box but I have one > question. I want the box to be headless, and so I can use and operate it > all remotely. I saw that you can bring up the program listings via a web > browser but that's half of what I want. Is there a way that I can view > recordings and live TV remotely too, like in a VideoLAN window? My idea for > how to get this to work is to specify a starting port (any convenient port) > on the box to play video on, ports at that number or the next available > sequential port can be used. When I want to watch a movie or live TV, I can > go to the web browser where it has live TV listings or a list of recordings, > click play on what I want and it streams the video over the first available > port. A bigger feature of this is that it lets some people play different > things (by mixing live TV or recordings) simultaneously. Perhaps John can > watch TV on tuner 1, a recording can be occuring on tuner 2 with the option > of someone watching the recording as it happens, Billy can watch a different > recorded show, etc... Maybe other ports play other things like a port to > display weather or to display information from installed modules. As for > playing, you can also have the option of delaying a playback of a recording > for a couple minutes for some reason, maybe you can display a "this show > will start in 1 minute, 37 seconds." to indicate the show is about to begin, > maybe the latest news headlines or whatever.
You can have it headless. There's an add-on called mythstreamtv which is supposed to let you stream a recording by selecting it in MythWeb. I've tried it and can't get it to work for love nor money, but I know lots of others have succeeded. Don't know it you can watch live tv this way. Regards, Phill _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
