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?
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>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> -Yaron
>>>>>> 
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-Yaron

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