[mythtv-users] master backend on nslu2 ?

[Steve Daniels]

Brian Wood wrote:
> Guillaume Membré wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I would like to know if someone have succeed in running a nslu2 as a
>> master backend without any capture device. Moreover, does mysql run on
>> this device with the backend ?
>> I would like to build a low power master backend with mythweb enabled
>> on it. It should also act as a NAS. Any advices ?
> 
> Not sure where to start on this one:
> 
> A "backend", by definition, has to have capture devices, otherwise why
> have it?
> 
> MySQL *will* run on a slug (aka NSLU2) but very slowly, as will a web
> server, but even more slowly.
> 
> The slugs are fun little toys, I've used them for everything from mail
> servers to web servers to audio playback devices. Folks have used them
> as Asterisk servers, running entire PBXes on them.
> 
> But I think you are asking too much of that little ARM CPU and small
> amount of RAM to do anything serious as a Myth backend, even if you
> could get USB-based video capture devices working with it.
> 
> I've been on the MythTV and the NSLU2 user's lists for years, and I
> think you are fighting a losing battle.
> 
> Maybe not what you wanted to hear, but...
> 
> BEWW
> beww at beww.org

Just thought I'd mention, I know a fair few people who's master backends 
have no capture devices at all. They are used purely for storage and the 
like, and the slave backends with the capture devices are brought online 
as and when needed.

Steve Daniels