[mythtv-users] backends without tuners (was Re: Transcoding is being done on frontends, not backend)

Brad DerManouelian myth at dermanouelian.com
Fri Jan 9 01:05:51 UTC 2009


On Jan 8, 2009, at 4:52 PM, jarpublic at gmail.com wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 7:03 PM, Brad DerManouelian <myth at dermanouelian.com 
> > wrote:
> On Jan 8, 2009, at 3:58 PM, Bill Williamson wrote:
>
> > Is this still true?  About a year ago I was reccomended a "master
> > backend without tuners" setup (all storage on master backend, all
> > tuners on net-booting slave backends) on this very list...
>
>
> Recommend by someone who either didn't read or chose to ignore this
> thread:
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/310919#310919
>
>
> I am a little confused now. I was aware of the fact that tunerless  
> backends are unsupported. But in the thread that this one branch  
> from, I thought it was said that running a frontend only system  
> without a backend is also unsupported. So if only FE/BE or BE  
> systems are officially supported and only BE with tuners are  
> supported, then what is a supported FE only machine? Does this  
> actually mean that on a FE only machine we should install BE but we  
> should then take steps post install to make sure the BE doesn't run,  
> because there are no tuners? Or have misunderstood what was said?  
> This seems awfully convoluted to me.

Sorry, where does it say running a frontend without a backend is  
unsupported?

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