I would really like to be able to watch TV from random PCs around the house without having the PC run the full blown front end.

Is there such a thing as a lightweight frontend for Linux that would allow me to fire up an application and watch either live TV or recorded program in a window on my regular Fedora desktop while I do real work?

I found an application like that for Windows but I was hoping one would exist for a Fedora Linux distro.

Try VLC - http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ You would need to store your recordings somewhere that the "random PCs around the house" can access. Not sure if/how you can watch LiveTV via MythTV however.

Thanks. That's how I've been watching recorded programs. My "random PCs" are Linux so I just NFS mount the /mythtv directory and watch with vlc or gmplayer.

I guess a hack to watch live TV is to go to the web interface and start recording the program I want to watch and then start up VLC to view the file as it's being created.

I wonder if that will work?

That works. I do the same thing in Windows with VLC. Just uses Samba instead of NFS.

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Google for "mythviewer"
It works similar to mythtv player for windows and only takes a few minsutes to set it up.

Cool, thanks! It looks like exactly what I need!

Well, it's close to what I need. I makes what I do now a little easier but what I really would like is something where I can watch either recorded programming OR tune live TV and change channels.

> Well, it's close to what I need. I makes what I do now a
> little easier but what I really would like is something where I
> can watch either recorded programming OR tune live TV and
> change channels.

Unfortunately, mythviewer isn't going to be able to do that
unless it's rewritten from the ground up. The only way to watch
live TV is with a MythTV frontend -- with something that talks
to the MythTV backend the same way that "the" MythTV frontend
does. mythviewr doesn't even know the backend exists. (The
backend doesn't have to be running to use mythviewer.)

Will the MythTV frontend run in a window?

Or maybe PnP clients can watch live TV? (I don't know, I've
never played with the PnP stuff).

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