[mythtv-users] MythTV using NAS (on a via ) using Gigabit ethernet.

[Brad DerManouelian]

On Sep 8, 2008, at 9:45 AM, Steve Daniels wrote:

> 2008/9/6 Brad DerManouelian <myth at dermanouelian.com>:
>> On Sep 5, 2008, at 3:57 PM, Blammo wrote:
>>
>>>> On Jun 28, 2008, at 1:56 PM, Guillaume Membré wrote:
>>>>> This is incorrect : I have a MB without any tuner and I works  
>>>>> like a
>>>>> charm. My slave wakes up and shutdown it self without any issue
>>>>> and I
>>>>> can connect with my separate frontend without having the slave on.
>>>>> My MB is running on a via C2 at 500 Mhz with 256 Mo of ram. It  
>>>>> also
>>>>> runs nfs, mysql, mediatomb and samba without using swap.
>>
>> That's an unsupported configuration. I'm happy it's working for you,
>> but if one day it should stop, you'll have to fix it yourself.
>
> I don't mean to sound like an arse, but I'm quite confused. What
> exactly would depend on the master-backend having a tuner? Isn't a
> master backend with a busy tuner and a slave backend with a free tuner
> is the same a master backend with a free tuner resource wise?
>
> [Yes I know, not supported, tested, or anything like that..]

The backend goes through a initialization step where it loads capture  
card information, sets them to their starting channels and makes sure  
the cards are working (as much as it can check that. It not-so- 
gracefully fails these things when there is no capture card defined  
and throws errors in the log. It might be easy for someone who would  
really like this configuration to write code to support it, but it  
seems that everyone who writes the code just decides to not run the  
backend instead since there's no reason to run it if you don't have a  
capture card.

I'm not claiming to know all he specifics of how the backend code  
looks. This is just what I have gathered from looking at my own logs  
and errors when I've used a database without any capture card  
configuration, etc...

-Brad