[mythtv-users] backend in appletv 2g?

[Raymond Wagner]

On 11/15/2010 17:37, Brian Wood wrote:
> On Monday, November 15, 2010 03:21:22 pm Raymond Wagner wrote:
>> On 11/15/2010 17:15, Brian Wood wrote:
>>> On Monday, November 15, 2010 02:58:34 pm Jarod Wilson wrote:
>>>> On Nov 15, 2010, at 2:30 PM, Raymond Wagner wrote:
>>>>> On 11/15/2010 11:01, Juanmol wrote:
>>>>>> Hi! I know it's possible to install the mythtv frontend in a
>>>>>> apple tv 2g (the little black one), but it's possible intall
>>>>>> the backend too?
>>>>> The AppleTV is of no use as a frontend or backend for MythTV.  It
>>>>> has insufficient memory to properly run either, much less both at
>>>>> the same time.
>>>> Well, I'm pretty sure it could serve as a slave backend just fine.
>>>> Was actually thinking about that as a possibility in favor of a
>>>> plug type computer, since its cheaper and/or more easily acquired
>>>> than any of the sheevaplug variants to date.
>>> not sure how it might work as a slave backend, but with an HDHR or
>>> a USB tuner it should get by.
>> If you have an HDHR, you can access it from any machine on the
>> network. Why bother dedicating a slave backend to it?
> You might want a slave BE to do commflagging or transcoding duties I
> suppose, and it would need *some* capture device, and the Plugs are
> limited to USB or network devices.

The jobqueue is available as 'mythjobqueue' if you want to take part in 
the queue but don't have a tuner for a proper backend.  Either way, you 
wouldn't want to bother running a jobqueue on either the previous or 
current AppleTVs, or any plug computers for that matter.