[mythtv-users] Master backend with no capture card

[Michael T. Dean]

On 02/03/2010 04:21 PM, David Brodbeck wrote:
> On Tue, February 2, 2010 5:28 pm, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>   
>> Of course, you could all just spend 3 minutes making a dummy tuner (as I
>> described earlier) for no extra cost and no performance loss and
>> actually run a supported configuration.  Then, when we fix all the "must
>> have a tuner" assumptions, you can delete the extra tuner/video
>> source/channel.
>>     
> Note that you'll still have weird side effects if all the storage space is
> in the master.  You can't just use storage groups because Myth will only
> record to a disk that's in the same machine as the tuner it's recording
> from.  You can get around this by doing an NFS mount, but Myth will think
> there's twice as much space available as there really is because it sees
> the NFS mount on the slave and the local disk on the master as separate
> storage.
>   

If I'm understanding you correctly, you won't have any problems if you
set up a capture card as I mentioned.  The storage usage/accounting is
specifically one of the known issues of a tunerless backend.

Mike