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

Craig Sanders cas at taz.net.au
Sat Jan 10 01:13:36 UTC 2009


On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 08:00:18PM -0500, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 01/09/2009 07:14 PM, Brad DerManouelian wrote:
> > On Jan 9, 2009, at 4:07 PM, Craig Sanders wrote:
> >   
> >> well, there's a few USEFUL command-line args that mythbackend supports
> >> that mythjobqueue doesn't:
> >>
> >> 1. --daemon
> >> 2. --pidfile
> >> 3. --logfile
> >
> > Looks like a feature request.

more of a bug description. mythjobqueue is claimed to be a supported
alternative to mythbackend for tunerless machines, but it isn't an
adequate substitute.

> Or a job for a simple shell script.

did you actually bother to read what i wrote?

a simple shell script isn't good enough.

until mythjobqueue can run as a proper daemon like mythbackend, it is NOT
an adequate substitute for mythbackend.

craig

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craig sanders <cas at taz.net.au>


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