[mythtv-users] Transcoding files

[Michael T. Dean]

On 05/23/2007 04:40 AM, James Buckley wrote:
>  On 23/05/07, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 05/22/2007 07:25 PM, Darryl Merritt wrote:
> >>
> >> Everytime I think of a good idea, someone has already done it..
> >> so I'll ask here first.
> >>
> >> Is there a script or application that will monitor the jobqueue
> >> and starttranscoding jobs on a host that is not running as a
> >> mythbackend or frontend?
> >
> > Just run mythjobqueue on the server.  Install Myth on the server
> > and configure it as a remote backend, but don't run mythbackend,
> > run mythjobqueue, instead.
>
>  can't you still run the full mythbackend, even though you don't have
>  any tuners?.


Yes, you can, but mythjobqueue was designed so you don't have to run the 
backend, but can run a more lightweight application, on a computer you 
don't wish to dedicate to Myth.

Mike