[mythtv] Backwards compatibility

Dan Wilga mythtv-dev2 at dwilga-linux1.amherst.edu
Thu Jan 7 14:17:57 UTC 2016


On 1/7/16 4:24 AM, Lawrence Rust wrote:
> I don't want to re-invent the wheel so I'd like to use an existing
> lightweight RPC mechanism (something that doesn't use JSON or XML
> etc). The Myth protocol, although clunky, looks as if it better fits
> those requirements. I'm not familiar with the services API but at 1st
> looks it appears to have much higher overhead and latency. Please
> correct me if I'm mistaken...

IIRC, Myth already uses ZeroMQ in places. Perhaps that would be a good 
way to do the communication? It has less overhead than anything HTTP-based.


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