[mythtv-users] User Jobs on Front End?

[Chris Pinkham]

* On Fri Jun 02, 2006 at 09:04:24PM -0500, Ivan Kowalenko wrote:
> Hello. I'm wondering if there is a way to run user jobs (possibly  
> commercial flag jobs) on front-ends? At the moment, I have a Celeron  
> 600 MHz as my back-end, and an XBox (P3 733 MHz) as a front-end, and  
> I'm wondering if there is some way to get the XBox Front-end to do  
> user jobs, or commercial flagging jobs?

That's exactly what mythjobqueue was made for.  On your frontend box,
run mythtv-setup and setup the JobQueue page just as if you were
setting up a backend.  Then just run mythjobqueue and it will start
processing jobs like any other backend would.

> Is it possible to run the back-end without a capture card?

Yes, but in this case you don't need to.

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Chris