On 7/4/05, Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2005-07-04 at 22:39 -0400, Colin wrote: > > Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > >On 7/4/05, Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>On Mon, 2005-07-04 at 16:21 -0400, Justin Hart wrote: > > >>>Honestly, if you're not recording television, I would use vlc. > > >>> > > >>> > > >>Well, I want to use it as a set top box. > > > > I'm only guessing but I think it probably won't work without the > > >MySQL server as it's so tied into that even for TV schedules and such > > >and that's all done through the database. > > well, if that's the case, then there must be something wrong with the > ebuild (or does it presume that the user has a backend somewhere and > thus does not need the databases in mysql on the front-end machine) > Oh, I see your question. I asked this myself a few months ago. Yes - it does assume thee's a backend somewhere on the network, but apparently you have to have MySQL on the frontend machine also to be able to send MySQL commands to the backend. All the 'frontendonly' USE flag does (I think - I've never read the ebuild) is to not build the actual backend code. It still requires MySQL be installed because it assumes you will talk to a MySQL based backend.
> > > > I'm not familiar with MythTV, but is it possible to put the server and > > frontend on the same machine? That sounds like it will work, at least > > in theory. > > Yeah.. It works. I've tried it last night by populating the mysql > database. It works. But for some reason, mythvideo does not recognise my > video files. > This I don't know about. I've never used mythvideo. I don't even know what it does. sorry. Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
