[mythtvnz] Virtual machines

[Nick Rout]

On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 10:30 AM,  <criggie at criggie.dyndns.org> wrote:
> 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.
>

mythfrontend will work on windows, from time to time for random
versions. There are a few sources of the precompiled windows builds.
google may help, or the mythtv users list.


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