iphone mythtv frontend

check it out! chris carey just released a mythtv frontend for the iphone. not only can you stream your mythtv collection to your iphone, but you can also control your mythtv box from your iphone![here]

i have both my master backend and my secondary backend/frontend working for the most part. i do need to share the video directories so each box doesn’t need a local copy but i’m still trying to figure out the best way to do that.

traditionally on a single backend/frontend you would just toss your videos in /var/lib/mythtv/video , but now i need a different structure to allow for me to mount the remote video directory w/out stomping on the local video directory. i’m thinking the easiest way to do this is to create a host directories in the default video location and see what happens.
( knoppmyth nfs howto | sharing video with a remote FE | optimizing performance )

ha! it works. watching a video over the network in mythvideo. i’m going to have to monitor my network for a few days to see how much traffic is being generated, but i’m really happy with the way mythbuntu 8.04 is looking. 10 days till ubuntu 8.04 is released so it’s not long till the mythbuntu 8.10 release either.

i was a little bummed to find out that you couldn’t just update between the mythbuntu alphas… i finally got around to tossing the 8.04 beta on my mythtv frontend and firewire input/capture WORKS! i also moved the pvr500 into the t105 and got that working. the only issue i’m having right now is figuring out how to get the primary backend and secondary backend to play nicely.

i also figured out how to get nxclient to work in mythbuntu. i never did figure out how to get xfce to start properly (it wouldn’t start in a window and it would render xfce over my current window manager) so i cheated and just installed ‘ubuntu-desktop’. not gnome, or gnome-desktop…. heh, yeah i’m slow.