[mythtv-users] Slave Backend requirements

[Tyler T]

Slave backends made sense back when one PC couldn't handle more than a
one, maybe two tuners (dumb framegrabber capture cards, software
encoding). Now that modern tuners present pre-compressed bits and PCs
are vastly more powerful, there doesn't seem to be a need for
low-power slaves. Just hang a dozen tuners off one master BE.

The only remaining reason I can think of to have a slave is to help
with commflagging or transcoding... which... is not what low-power
system is good at.

Flame on!