[mythtv-users] Mac OS X secondary backend setup problems

[Craig Treleaven]

At 8:57 PM -0400 6/26/12, jrh wrote:
>On Jun 26, 2012, at 1:26 PM, Craig Treleaven wrote:
>>Thanks.  Where did your OS X binaries come from?  osx-packager.pl, 
>>osx-packager-qtskd.pl?  Do you know which version of Qt?
>>
>>Also, I'm curious about running a slave backend on OS X, if you 
>>don't mind.  Obviously, any backend could talk to the HDHR3.  Why 
>>set up the Mac as a slave as opposed to having your primary backend 
>>control the additional tuners?
>
>I downloaded the latest .25-fixes dmg from sourceforge for 10.7 and 
>is dated 2012-06-05.
>fixes/0.25 [v0.25.1] <http://www.mythtv.org>www.mythtv.org
>  Qt version: compile: 4.8.1, runtime: 4.8.1
>
>My objective is to use the mac slave backend only when I want mythtv 
>to transcode and I have set up a startmyth.sh and stopmyth.sh to 
>mount nfs/start mythbackend, and umount nfs/stop mythbackend 
>respectively.
>
>My master backend is a lightweight AMD fusion processor with low 
>power requirements and is configured to not transcode jobs. It 
>suffices for all recording, and serving of video. I do not have any 
>tuners configured on the Mac slave backend.
>
>I have the mac do an nfs mount of the /var/lib/mythtv dir structure 
>from the mac to the master backend to read the source mpg and write 
>the transcode file to.

I think you only need to run the job queue; not a slave backend.  Was 
MythJobQueue.app in your download from sourceforge?  AFAIK, a backend 
must have tuners defined.  Also, I don't think you have to use nfs 
mounts but I really don't have any experience with transcoding.

Craig