[mythtv] Thoughts on encoder farms / distributed capturing and
viewing
rob
mythtv-dev@snowman.net
Sun, 03 Nov 2002 14:56:40 -0600
How about something simple, like a mythbackend and a mythfrontend? The
backend will take care of the recording from the video capture card,
encoding, etc. The frontend does the GUI, decoding, etc. The frontend
machine can even be a thin client, since the files, etc will be stored
on the backend machine. I haven't looked at the code yet, but I can't
imagine that it would that difficult, since I think everything is in
different threads anyway. Create some simple TCP server on the backend
that will send the recorded data when requested and the frontend can
have a little buffer to handle network hiccups... If I find the time
this week, I might play with this.
(I have a personal motivation for this, since I have two machines that
cannot handle 640x480 record and playback simultaneously with mpeg4.
Both are capable of one function full-resolution, but I would want both
functions at that resolution at the same time.)
Robert Kulagowski wrote:
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