<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 5:31 AM, James Crow <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:james@ultratans.com">james@ultratans.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
After having Myth running for the better part of two years on one TV I<br>
have purchased a second Myth box for the other TV in the house. I am<br>
debating making it a secondary BE/FE or just using it as a FE. My<br>
current BE/FE machine can only hold two drives (2x 500GB SATA). One<br>
drive is for recordings and one drive is OS and other media files (DVD<br>
rips, flac audio, etc).<br>
<br>
The new system came with a 500GB SATA drive. Plenty of room for OS<br>
install, but how do I best utilize the space? I don't watch much TV so I<br>
don't need it for TV recording space. I would like to use the space for<br>
storing DVD rips and flac audio. So far I have not found the right<br>
documentation to tell me how/if space local to a secondary backend can<br>
be used within Myth. In the documentation it mentions setting the<br>
storage directories per BE, but I think that only applies to TV<br>
recording space. I tried to run the video manager on the slave BE and it<br>
wanted to remove the video files stored on the master BE.<br>
<br>
Ideally I would prefer to keep all recording duties on the master BE so<br>
that the slave BE can be powered off except as needed for watching<br>
TV/movies. Is there a way to have more media files available to a slave<br>
BE without causing problems for the master BE?<br>
<br>
BTW these are both Mythbuntu 8.04.1 systems if it matters.<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
James<br>
<br>
____</blockquote></div><br>I have a frontend only machine and, while it has a button to import DVD, it won't do it. It is missing the transcode engine, which is part of the backend. So rule that option out. I assume you would also need a database to log the rips as well. I have not tried it, but a frontend-secondary backend souds like something to try.<br>
<br>Allen<br><br></div>