On 4/17/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Steve</b> <<a href="mailto:MythTV@celeris-software.com">MythTV@celeris-software.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I have 2 laptops that can be used as diskless front ends, booting from<br>either USB key, CD or PXE connected to TV via built in svideo and<br>sound card.<br><br>I did not come across any setups for playback only in browsing any of
<br>the MythTV documentation of mailing list archives.. is this even<br>possible? If so what hardware/software/OS considerations are there?</blockquote><div><br>KnoppMyth can boot directly from the CD into frontend only mode, On my Lenovo ThinkPad T42, it works with the wireless card and everything.
<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Or is this plan to re-use my old laptops just going to introduce me to<br>a world of hurt, regardless of phase 1 or 3, and I should just cough
<br>up the cash for dedicated front end hardware?</blockquote><div><br>I don't know your experience level with Linux, but it should not be too difficult. Try KnoppMyth first and see if it fits your needs, then as plan B try to get the Linux distro of your choice running with mythfrontend.
<br><br>-Pete<br><a href="http://www.mythpvr.com">http://www.mythpvr.com</a><br></div></div>