[mythtv] [PATCH] Transcoder w/cutlist updates

Mark Levitt mark.levitt at ntlworld.com
Tue Jun 17 07:30:37 EDT 2003


Actually, I think it would be usefull to have a way to configure another 
machine for transcoding.

I've got an older PIII-800 that's small and quiet. I'm using this as the 
master backend. It sits in the corner with no mouse, keyboard or 
monitor. I've also got a new P4 2.4Ghz machine that I use for games, 
day-to-day work, and transcoding DVDs.

I would love to have the fast machine do the transcoding. It's not the 
master backend because it's not on all the time and I dual boot with 
Windows so it's not running Linux all the time. But, it is the fastest 
machine.

Here's an idea for implimenting this as well:
1) Have a "transcoder priority" setting for each backend.
2) By default, the master backend has higher priority than other 
backends, but the user can change this
3) When transcoding starts, check the priority for each backend. 
Whichever has the highest priority does the actual transcoding.

This would also allow for some automatic load distribution. You could, 
when a backend starts transcoding, temporarily lower the priority value 
by some amount. Then you could have a group of backends transcoding and 
automatically distribute the work between them.


Isaac Richards wrote:

>>backend.  I suppose I could make it so that the prefered server for
>>transcoding could be added to the settings, but I'm not really sure how
>>important that is.  The code to actually do so is trivial, though I'm not
>>sure how to make configuration straight-forward.
>>    
>>
>
>Probably best -- I'd _hope_ that the master was also the most powerful 
>backend.
>
>Isaac
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