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

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Fri Jan 9 17:48:42 UTC 2009


On 01/09/2009 12:41 PM, David Brodbeck wrote:
> On Fri, January 9, 2009 9:14 am, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>   
>> On 01/08/2009 09:14 PM, Krzysztof Adamski wrote:
>>     
>>> The Debian-media package installs the frontend without backend without
>>> any problems.
>>> The only thing that is does wrong is that it forces mysql server to be
>>> installed on a frontend only machine.
>>>       
>> And it doesn't allow proper configuration of the host due to the lack of
>> having mythtv-setup (which is probably what you're referring to in the
>> second part).
>>     
> I'm still not clear on what mythtv-setup does that the General Settings
> page in the frontend doesn't do.  In fact, I've found that changing
> database settings in mythtv-setup has no effect on where the frontend
> looks for its database, but changing them on the General Settings page
> does.

OK, so it's not necessary any more.

Mike


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