With Mythfrontend, escaping out of it closes it. I have used services and init.d to close the backend,. This always worked before. Not sure what changed. ----- "Yaron" wrote: Have you tried shutting down both mythfrontend and mythbackend in a tidy way? On Tue, 7 Feb 2012, Raymond Norton wrote: > You don't have to convince me of MythTV. I have used it for years and love > it. However, I am not streaming just on a LAN, but across the Internet and > VLC works perfectly for that. Once in a while, I do use myth streaming, but > at the moment, I prefer the full functionality I get with VLC. > > Feel free to answer my original question :) > > > > > On 2/7/2012 11:49 AM, Yaron wrote: >> I hate to be pushing MythTV rather than offering a solution, but I'm fairly >> sure Myth has a network RC interface. >> >> (Also I prefer to have one remote control for everything rather than >> separate "portable devices" for each device). >> >> On Tue, 7 Feb 2012, Raymond Norton wrote: >> >>> Right... Mythtv can stream live, but with VLC, I can stream live and >>> change channels from any portable device, no remote needed :) >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On 2/7/2012 11:40 AM, Yaron wrote: >>>> MythTV can stream livetv... not sure about the channel changing. I use a, >>>> what's it called... newfangled thing... remote control! (: >>>> >>>> On Tue, 7 Feb 2012, Raymond Norton wrote: >>>> >>>>> I'm streaming live TV using vlc and changing channels via an HTTP >>>>> interface. I use mthtv for making and watching recordings. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On 2/7/2012 10:58 AM, Yaron wrote: >>>>>> Out of curiosity, why don't you just use MythTV to do the streaming, >>>>>> too? You can tell it to use VLC as the video player. >>>>>> >>>>>> On Tue, 7 Feb 2012, Raymond Norton wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> I use a box for both mythtv and streaming vlc. I need to kill >>>>>>> mythtvbackend to make the dvb adapter available to vlc, which is not a >>>>>>> problem. However, something has changed that I am not aware of and >>>>>>> even though I killall myth, vlc says the dvb adapter is not available. >>>>>>> Is there a way to issue a command that frees up the adapter, >>>>>>> regardless of what is using it, or at least find the process that is >>>>>>> using it? >>>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>>> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >>>>>>> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >>>>>>> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> -Yaron >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >>>>>> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >>>>>> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >>>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >>>>> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >>>>> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -Yaron >>>> >>>> -- >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >>>> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >>>> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >>> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >>> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >>> >> >> >> -Yaron >> >> -- >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -Yaron -- _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota tclug-list at mn-linux.org http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- Raymond Norton LCTN Ecclesiastes 7:21-22 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20120207/02dcab44/attachment.html>