Sunday, March 16, 2014

MythTV and old WII, via WIIMC

http://www.wiimc.org/

Have connected our Fedora MythTV to the WII Multimedia player, installed on the Homebrew Channel

WIIMC does not see the MythTV as a server, so connecting to the mythtv machine as a fileserver to access the video files directly.

two modes currently: FTP and SMB

Notes:

1) annoying fact:  vsftpd does not follow symlinks;  so my rename/make symlink script does not work, have to access the files directly, if using the default fedora vsftpd server.

2) smb share does see the symlinks, but does not play, still working on this.

TODO:  Create some sort of web interface... still need to research, on this one.

MythTV Android Frontend BETA

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mythtv

recently installed MythTV Android Frontend from the  Google Play Store .

Working great.

Client is a 2012 Nexus 7, with VLC player as the video client

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.videolan.vlc.betav7neon

Notes:
for internal network tests, have default settings.

Landscape mode, is a bit cramped on the program listing.  On my current setup, I can only see two shows in the show list;  Seems to be setup to use portrait mode, and then flip to landscape when playing the video.


No problems with Fedora

All quiet here, recently.

Why?

Things "just work"

Recently been running Fedora 18 linux, recently upgraded to Fedora 20.

Was running Fedora 18, 32 bit + PAE, switched to Fedora 20, x64.

Been using for homework, MythTV, Office VPN, Old machine VM.