MythTV Frontend

One of the joys of MythTV is that you can have the frontend and backend part of the system on different computers. Building a Myth Frontend is a great way to extend your MythTV system to more televisions yet still be able to access all your existing MythTV content. It's great in that it allows central recording and scheduling while allowing you to branch out to more rooms in your home.

Here's how to build a silent MythTV Frontend. This is an excellent way to build a low power, "set-top" box to extend your MythTV media server to additional TV's in your home.

First let's take a step back, and cover my motivations for taking on this project. Then we'll cover how I built it.

Themes are what make MythTV look and feel the way it does. The look and feel of MythTV's interface can be changed by using different themes.

There are three basic was to connect your HDTV MythTV box to your HDTV. HDTV is a high resolution digital signal. S-Video is not able to handle the high resolution signal for example. The suggested connections types are:

• VGA
• DVI
• HDMI

I've gotten tired of rebooting my windows laptop into KnoppMyth every time I want to want to use it for MythTV. I've looked before for a MythTV client frontend for windows and never found anything that really seemed to be worth the time.

Today I tried MythTV Player. It's not really a MythTV frontend in the true sense. The name really describes it quite well, being that it plays MythTV content.