[mythtv-users] Slave back end setup commercial flagging

[Brent Bolin]

On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 11:42 PM, Jim Stichnoth <stichnot at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 7:56 PM, Brent Bolin <brent.bolin at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm considering setting up a slave back end to just do commercial flagging.
>>
>> Also this slave back end will be running in a Xen domU environment.
>> Will this work?
>>
>> Are there any good howto for setting up slave environments?
>>
>> I've found this
>> http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-23.html#ss23.24 but it doesn't
>> go into much detail about setup.
>>
>> Example:
>> How does the slave machine scan the video for flagging?
>>
>> I have all mpeg2 OTA recordings.  Is this done with an NFS mount of my
>> recordings directory?  Or is it done via a network stream?
>
> You don't need to try to set up a slave backend.  You can use
> mythjobqueue instead.  First run mythtv-setup to configure what kinds
> of jobs the machine can do (e.g. commflagging) and how many
> simultaneous jobs it can handle.  Then arrange for mythjobqueue to
> always be running, such as starting it at boot time.  The content can
> be delivered by the myth network stream, so no NFS mounting is needed.
>
> Jim
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Not sure I understand.  Have a mythbuntu backend setup.  also have
three mythbuntu frontends

I want to unload the processing currently done on the backend to
another backend slave(xen domU)