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Between my desktop, my frontend, and my backend I've got 5<BR>> cpus
distributed over the home network catching up on the
backlog.<BR>><BR>> That's just too
cool...<BR><BR><BR>Ummm, how?<BR><BR>I had to transcode two HD shows last
night and it took *forever*. I<BR>sat there working on my laptop that
was doing nothing at all and<BR>wondered whether I could use it for any
good?<BR></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">Indeed, I've been trying a Mythdora
VMWare frontend onm my laptop.</DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">I'm not sure I have the setup right but
from what I've seen so far it's just acting as a gui for all the operations on
the backend. It's potentially really useful but reality is still for me a
confusing battle against issue after issue. </DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">But things I know you can do... due
to the issue with 2nd audio tracks getting blanked on DVBt recordings I've need
to ffmpeg "lossless" transcode and I've done this from my laptop. If you
just get the latest exe (assuming Windows) and learn some ffmpeg
command line stuff it's very easy although not strictly
MythTV. </DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>