[mythtv-users] Limit a particular user job to one instance
Michael T. Dean
mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Sun Sep 14 01:59:40 UTC 2014
On 09/13/2014 07:13 AM, Joseph Fry wrote:
> I am kicking off a bulk transcoding of most of my recordings, but to
> free up space for all of the new fall shows, as well as to make them
> watchable on our mobile devices across wifi.
>
> Anyway... my system wil be transcoding for days... and I still want
> commflagging jobs to run. Is there any way to restrict a particular
> userjob to a single instance so that my other job slots can be used by
> comflagging and media downloads?
>
> I know I could batch process them from the command line, or even
> modify my script such that the job only queue's the transcode and
> finishes, while the transcode script itself processes them in order.
> But before I hack something like that together, I want to be sure
> there that I am not overlooking a setting that does what I need.
There's a per-host setting to enable or disable a particular job. Just
disable the job on all hosts except the one you want to run the
transcode job--even if it's just temporarily for this batch.
Mike
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