[mythtv-users] Mythcommflag - which backend

[Chris Pinkham]

> > Possible and designed to allow it. :)  You can do the same with the
> > transcoding and User Jobs.

> Is this true?  I tried to get a non-tuner backend to do all my
> commflaging and transcoding, while commflagging worked fine,
> transcoding only worked on the master backend....
> 
> Or was the solution that I needed nfs access to my backend storage for
> transcoding to work?  Just curious.

You need (NFS|SMB|etc) access to the recordings directory for transcoding
to work.  mythtranscode will not transcode a file if it sees "myth://" in
the playback URL for the file.  The "myth://" part means that the file is
not available locally (either really locally or over a network filesystem)
and since there is no way to write a file remotely via the Myth protocol
then mythtranscode aborts.  If you have the recordings directory mounted
locally, then the "myth://" is not part of the playback URL and
mythtranscode can read and write the file locally.

-- 
Chris