[mythtv-users] Moving MythTV backend to another computer

[Raymond Wagner]

On Apr 2, 2014, at 6:43, "Michael T. Dean" <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:

> On 04/01/2014 06:02 PM, Mike Perkins wrote:
>> 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 a bit out of date.
> 
> mythmediaserver is for systems that have content (Videos, etc.) to serve but no tuners.

Paul H mentioned a while back that he was only ever getting one successful transfer out of that application when setting up MythMusic for storage groups, after which it would segfault.  I haven't yet had a chance to look into it.