[ale] myth without tv part

[Narahari 'n' Savitha]

JD:

Are you saying that you are using Myth to keep the recordings and ripped
mpegs etc., on the backend.

You then use XBMC to poll or look at these folders and show the stuff as
links on your XBMC front end ?

-Narahari

On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 2:00 PM, JD <jdp at algoloma.com> wrote:

>  I had that same issue with MythTV.
>
> XBMC is an easy to use (relatively) front end that may be worth your time.
> Last weekend the DC404 guys did a fairly extensive demonstration and how-to
> presentation on XBMC and a few other tools entitled The Most Awesome Vegan
> Mediacenter<http://dc404.kaos.to/page4/files/Awesome_Vegan_Mediacenter.pdf>.
>
> I spent a few hours setting XBMC up yesterday on an Eee - just the XBMC
> stuff, not all the other downloading (sickbeard and SABnzdb) stuff. I'm
> hooked.
>
> I've seen where some folks use MythTV to record and XBMC to playback in a
> wife + kid friendly way. I'd like to have MythTV do the recordings too ...
> someday. Ah, someday.  For now, I'll just push the content into the TV
> folders and movies into the Movie area that XBMC understands.
>
> I'm ignorant on MythTV's magical internal workings and want to understand
> too.
>
>
> On 02/21/2011 12:43 PM, Narahari 'n' Savitha wrote:
>
> Friends:
>
> I understnad that there is TV in MythTV.  But since my tuner is not there
> yet, can I use Myth as an Entertainment be all util.
>
> For example, I have ripped 10 dvd's and I have mpegs of those in my backend
> server (which also runs the front end for now).
>
> Whatever configuration I do, I am unable to see the mpeg files show up in
> the front end.  I am not sure what I am missing but I was expecting
> the front end to show the icons of the mpeg files (or iso), so I can pick
> them and play.
>
> Appreciate your time and any inputs to cure my ignorance.
>
> -Narahari
>
>
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