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

Brad DerManouelian myth at dermanouelian.com
Thu Jan 8 21:57:17 UTC 2009


On Jan 8, 2009, at 1:54 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote:

> On 01/08/2009 04:49 PM, Brad DerManouelian wrote:
>> On Jan 8, 2009, at 1:39 PM, Will wrote:
>>> 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.
>>>
>> Remove the mythbackend from your frontend machine. There is no reason
>> to have it running or even installed.
>>
>
> "Remove" meaning don't run it--don't uninstall it.

Curious as to why you recommend leaving the backend installed on a  
frontend machine. If there are no tuners on the machine, it's not good  
and even potentially harmful to run.



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