Honestly, if you're not recording television, I would use vlc. Justin
On 7/4/05, Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've got a question on Myth. I want to try running mythtv but the catch > is, I don't want the backend and the usage of MySQL and stuffs like > that. I don't have a PVR card (yet) but I still would like to use mythtv > as a frontend to play my DVD and AVIs etc. > > I've emerged myth-0.18 with the "frontendonly" flag but upon running the > mythfrontend command, I keep getting presented with the setup screen to > for setting up the connection to mysql. (which I presume is the backend) > > Can it be done? I would assume yes but the question is "HOw?" > > I've also tried to put in the database, but based on the ebuild, using > the frontendonly flag does not package the database files into the > Gentoo tbz. > > > help please. > > -- > Ow Mun Heng > Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM > 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! > Neuromancer 15:22:30 up 6 days, 2:09, 6 users, load average: 2.30, 1.24, > 1.11 > > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- Justin W. Hart -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list