[mythtvnz] Virtual machines
criggie at criggie.dyndns.org
criggie at criggie.dyndns.org
Sat Nov 6 21:30:19 GMT 2010
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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