[mythtv-users] DVB-S2 IP tuner

[Simon Hobson]

Jan Ceuleers <jan.ceuleers at gmail.com> wrote:

>> I am curious, is there an advantage to doing it either of those ways vs running a MythTV slave backend on the PC instead ?
> 
> A slave backend needs to be online not only during the recording but
> also during playback.
> 
> This is the case because the recording is associated with the backend
> which recorded it, meaning that the (slave in this case) backend needs
> storage, whether local or otherwise. This is in fact another
> disadvantage of the slave backend approach: the need for dedicated storage.

Ah, I hadn't realised that. I had in mind the slave BE recording to storage on the master BE.

Simon