[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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