<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/30/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">David Muench</b> <<a href="mailto:davemuench@gmail.com">davemuench@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 5/30/07, Jacob Yeh <<a href="mailto:jyeh@alumni.rice.edu">jyeh@alumni.rice.edu</a>> wrote:<br><br>> I will let you all know how it turns out but Guillame, it certainly is NOT a<br>> bad idea (in my opinion) to use the NSLU2 as a cheap, low-power-consuming,
<br>> quiet machine as a tuner-less MythTV master backend machine.<br><br>Very interesting. I've been planning a similar idea myself. Currently<br>I run my backend as a Xen domU, but while it works it has a number of
<br>disadvantages. It requires the PCI passthru feature, something which<br>always seems to cause issues with new versions of Xen. It's not<br>heavily used I don't think. So I was pondering stripping my mythtv<br>
backend down to basically what you've described - it's the scheduler,<br>and mythweb runs there, but no tuners. Then moving the tuners to a<br>second machine that can turn on and off as needed. The main stumbling<br>
block appears to be that the mythtv auto shutdown/startup code just<br>doesn't wasn't designed to turn on and off slave backends on demand.<br>There have been a few threads about this, and a few ideas on ways to<br>
script around it.. But probably nothing as elegant as it could be.<br><br>I'm going to keep my eye on this thread for sure though..<br><br>Dave<br></blockquote></div><br>If this whole IPTV thing takes off and allows recording with myth, you could use both the nslu2 and a xen guest as a mythbackend with tuners.
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