[mythtv-users] frontend machine - run slave backend or connect to master backend?

[David Brodbeck]

On Feb 6, 2008, at 8:44 AM, Ronald Frazier wrote:

> I'm setting up my first dedicated frontend box, and I'm trying to
> figure out whether the machine should run it's own slave backend or
> just connect directly to the master backend? From my initial testing,
> it appears to work either way. What are the advantages of each? There
> are no capture cards on the frontend.

If there are no capture cards, there's probably no advantage to  
running a backend.

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> If I run a slave backend, I could use the CPU of the slave for
> commercial flagging, right?

Yes, but you can do that without running a backend on it, too; just  
run mythjobqueue.