[mythtv-users] running just mythcommflag on another linux host?

[Tim Hamer]

sure, you just have to make sure "allow commercial detection jobs" is 
unchecked in the setup of your master backend and checked on the slave 
backend. also make sure "allow flagging only on recording host" is 
unchecked.

unfortunately, this doesnt seem to work for transcoding. recordings are 
flagged on my 2.4GHz P4 frontend and then transcoded on my 866MHz P3 
backend. anyone know how to change that?

Jesse Guardiani wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm working with very limited processor constraints. I've got
> a 733mhz P3 with a PVR-350 card as my frontend/backend.
> This is fine for TV recording and playback as it's 100% hardware
> accelerated, but it breaks down when I want to play DVDs, even
> with the new 0.3.7d ivtv drivers with XV support. So I need to
> offload as much CPU as possible.
> 
> This MythTV box mounts all it's storage directories over
> 100BaseTX NFS. The machine hosting my disk array and NFS
> is a dual CPU 600mhz P3, and it's CPUs are idle 99% of the
> time.
> 
> I'm going to migrate the MySQL database to my NFS server
> tonight, but I doubt that will give me any useful performance benefits.
> I'm mainly doing it to make sure my Myth DB is on the RAID-1
> array for reliability reasons.
> 
> What I'd like to do is run mythcommflag on the NFS server. I've
> notice mythcommflag chew up as much as 40% CPU, so this would
> be a big win.
> 
> Is it possible to setup a slave backend on the NFS server that
> doesn't have a tuner and only runs mythcommflag jobs and periodic
> jobs like mythfilldatabase?
> 
> Thanks!
>