[mythtv] Portable backend,
was MacOS X partial backend implementation
Nigel Pearson
nigel at ind.tansu.com.au
Thu Apr 7 04:22:57 UTC 2005
> What I think would be interesting is a "portable" backend. (ie for
> laptops). This backend would do no recording on its own, but simply
> copy files from a master backend as well as the needed database info
> so that mythtv can be used on the road when there is no contact with
> the master backend.
Very interesting idea, Geoff. This could be done one of two ways:
1) Implement a new backend program (mythportablebackend? mythpback?)
Not impossible, but implementing the MySQL API might be tedious,
and keeping all the Myth protocols up to date with the real
backend is a bit of a maintenance pain.
I thought about this in the early days of the Mac frontend port,
when I was catching a train to/from work and thus was away from
a backend to test against
2) Use the current mythbackend with a local MySQL
and a database modified from the real one.
The patches I included should let you build a mythbackend
binary, and a few shell or Perl scripts could be hacked to
select programs, copy them, and insert relevant local
database entries
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