On 11/7/05, Lonnie Borntreger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2005-11-06 at 19:45 -0500, Michael T. Dean wrote: > > Lonnie Borntreger wrote: > > >I'm not sure I understand why NFS, mplayer, and totem even come up for > > >watching prerecorded shows on a frontend. I put the frontend on a > > >laptop, told it where the backend was, didn't mount anything, and watch > > >prerecorded (and live) shows through MythTV itself - streamed across the > > >network from the backend (just like live tv). > > > > > > > > For efficiency. Why make mythbackend go to the trouble of streaming the > > file if the frontend can just read the file directly? > > I guess if you don't mind losing commercial skipping and other features. > For me, that's >90% of the reason to use MythTV in the first place. > > (of course, this has no bearing on any media that MythTV can't stream)
Perhaps you mean playing outside of MythTV on the front end? I seem to recall that commericial skipping still worked on the remote front end when I was playing the video mounted via NFS. This is probably 100% related to the KnoppMyth issue and not the normal stable release. I wonder if RDMathews is running KnoppMyth. _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
