[mythtv-users] Problems with new tunerless slave backend

Brian Guilfoos mythtv at guilfoos.com
Wed May 2 17:06:14 UTC 2007


Justin The Cynical wrote:
> /mythtv/storage (drive that holds the recordings) lives on the master 
> backend, and the tuner cards all live in the master backend.
> 
> Now my understanding is that if a slave/frontend can't access the video 
> files directly, it will stream them from the frontend, correct?

Only for playback.  AFAIK, backend operations (commflagging,
transcoding, userjobs) require the file to be on a mounted filesystem.
To use this other machine to process video, NFS export /mythtv/storage
from your master backend, and mount it on your slave backend.



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