[mythtv-users] Transcoding is being done on frontends, not backend

Raymond Wagner raymond at wagnerrp.com
Thu Jan 8 21:49:14 UTC 2009


Will wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a Master Backend, and several frontends.
>
> Recently I set up a diskless machine with PXE boot for a mythtv
> frontend. On another frontend, I went to the information page and saw
> that transcoding was being done on "ubuntu".
>
> For some reason, this diskless machine was doing the transcoding!
>
> How can I restrict which computers transcode (or only have my master
> backend transcode)?
>
> This diskless machine does not have a tuner, and there is no reason it
> should be transcoding. No other machine (including master backend) was
> busy.
>
> Thanks
>   
Transcoding is ONLY done on the backend.  If you're not running a 
backend on the machine (or jobqueue, or MTD), you will not be doing any 
processing on a frontend.  If you are running a backend, you can go into 
mythtv-setup, and disable transcoding tasks for that machine.


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