[mythtv-users] Transcoding files

[jedi at mishnet.org]

> 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?.

That seems silly. What's the point? The backend itself isn't going to be
the lightweight part of running jobs on a slave backend. The jobs themselves
will be the heavyweight part. Those will probably still need everything that
would would need to build/run a backend anyways.

Transcode jobs will suck the life out of a system. The backend is barely
noticable. This is the case even when it's busy recording stuff. Even a
mysql instance (setup sanely) will be pretty invisible.

>
>
> 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.