[mythtv-users] Moving MythTV backend to another computer

[Mike Perkins]

On 01/04/14 22:05, jedi wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 01, 2014 at 02:51:57PM -0400, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>> On 04/01/2014 11:48 AM, Tony Lill wrote:
>>> I don't know
>>> why they don't make it official since they just have to not break what
>>> already works.
>>
>> Because parts of MythTV's functionality (involving file and file
>> system management) break when you have any tunerless backends.  If
>> you're going to do things wrong, please don't recommend that other
>> people do the same.  And, really, you should at least create demo
>> tuners so that your system won't be broken.
>
>      Given the requirement that content be streamed through a backend
> rather accessed through a lower level protocol, that requirement seems
> a bit out of date. If a machine has all of the disks but doesn't have
> any tuners, then running a tunerless backend on that box should not be
> problem. Just a basic operational requirement.
>
If a machine has all of the disks and doesn't have a tuner, it doesn't need to 
be a backend. You might just as well treat the box as a NAS since there is no 
benefit running a backend on it.

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Mike Perkins