[mythtv-users] Slave Backend requirements

[Gary Buhrmaster]

On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 11:39 PM, Tyler T <tylernt at gmail.com> wrote:
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> The only remaining reason I can think of to have a slave is to help
> with commflagging or transcoding

Another reason (and this is one of those extreme edge cases)
is if a particular content source can only be obtained from one
location far from your master BE.  There was a post a few months
ago about someone who had a fringe signal that could not be
amplified (or at least not at a price he wanted to spend; even
fringe signals can usually be amplified with extremely low noise
amps (or pre-amps, or channel specific antenna design), but
those can get expensive), so he wanted to locate the SBE in the
garage (or something like that), and then run a network
connection from there back to the MBE.

And SBEs can have content storage, so it is an alternative
(for some) to add additional storage.

Gary