[mythtvnz] Virtual machines

[criggie at criggie.dyndns.org]

On 07/11/10 10:23, Solor Vox wrote:
> On Sun, November 7, 2010 08:04, criggie at criggie.dyndns.org wrote:
>> Has anyone had any luck running mythfrontend inside a virtual machine?

> Without direct hardware acceleration of the video card, it's going to be
> slow.  Have you considered using mythweb and use the ASX stream links to
> VLC?  Aside form installing VLC on Windows, you don't need any other
> software to basically run myth.
> I actually prefer using the web interface over myth on a TV/remote.  The
> only real downside is the commercial skipping flags (auto skip) doesn't
> work using it this way.  But you can pause/FF/RW the streams and skip them
> manually.

Yes, they're hacky solutions.  I've had most luck using MythTV Player 
for windows - version 0.6.0 seems to be the best one.

As you observed, there's always issues.   Trying to get users to mark 
and transcode ads is a big battle... I'm tempted to auto transcode but 
its not accurate enough.

The plan was to run proper mythfrontend in a VM now the new laptop has VT.


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Criggie

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