[mythtv-users] Commercial detecting on a remote backend? Should it work?

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Mike,

Saturday, October 25, 2014, 6:46:09 AM, you wrote:


> On 10/24/2014 07:21 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>> On 10/24/2014 08:25 PM, Hika van den Hoven wrote:
>>> Hoi John,
>>>
>>> Saturday, October 25, 2014, 1:08:47 AM, you wrote:
>>>
>>>> I have a linux box that is sitting mostly idle in the evenings and I
>>>> want to use it to help with commercial flagging when it is 
>>>> available.  I
>>>> have the backend running on the "idle" linux box and I can see it get
>>>> the comflag job passed to it however it does not appear to flag the
>>>> commercials.  I have noticed that if a recording is commercial flagged
>>>> on the same host as the recording the breaks appear to work but if the
>>>> commercial flagging is done on a backend where the recording was not
>>>> generated then the breaks appear to not be flagged at all.
>>>> Any information on this would be appreciated.
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Start a backend on that machine and set it in mythtv-setup to accept
>>> the jobs you want to run there. Also if you no longer want the run
>>> them on the masterbackend, disable it there. I use this to run
>>> transcoding jobs on my normal working machine, that has a 6 core
>>> athlon, while the master backend has enough to do.
>>
>> Or if the machine you want to run the jobs doesn't have tuners, don't 
>> run mythbackend, but run mythjobqueue instead.  It's 1/10th the system 
>> resources and will do the job properly and was designed to work on a 
>> system without tuners (as opposed to mythbackend, which requires tuners).
>>
>> Mike
>>
> ***
> This looks like just the right advice at just the right time, for me at
> least! Can mythjobqueue coexist with mythfrontend?

> mike

I don't see why not. Only if the running jobs take to many resources,
playback might get hampered.


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