[mythtv] Questions about which components are meant for FE and BE

Steven Adeff adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com
Fri Oct 13 12:06:13 UTC 2006


On 10/12/06, Joe Votour <joevph at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I'm working with Axel Thimm to try to reorganize the packaging for the
> Fedora RPMs, and I have some questions.  I've looked in the Wiki, and gone
> through the archives, and it seems that I'm left with more questions than
> answers.
>
> There are several packages that can be pulled in via ATrpms, but there is
> the concept of a "mythtv-backend" and a "mythtv-frontend", which are
> intended for use in setting up minimal machines.  What brings this issue
> up is that mythcommflag and mythtranscode are included only in the
> frontend packages, but I've known commercial flagging to be run only on
> the backend.
>
> Given the list of these programs, which are meant for the backend, and
> which are meant to be located on the frontend?

assuming your frontend will never do any commercial flagging or
transcoding (which would require it to run a remote backend as
well)...

> mythcommflag
> mythtranscode
backend

> mythtvosd
frontend. though I believe you can technically run it on the backend
to send information to the remote frontend.

> mythlcdserver
frontent

> mythshutdown
either. used to shutdown and startup a machine via the BIOS wake up
alarms. useful if your backend sits unoccupied for extended periods of
time between recordings. can technically be used for the frontend too.

> mythwelcome
frontend

> Knowing that MythTV is a client-server architecture, some programs are
> capable of being run on both a frontend and a backend (or any other
> machine, for that matter).  That may very well be the case for the above
> programs, but still, I figure I'll ask.

indeed

-- 
Steve
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