[mythtv-users] Multiple mythbackend processes

[Joseph A. Caputo]

On Friday 30 April 2004 13:15, Isaac Richards wrote:
> On Friday 30 April 2004 12:55 pm, Grant Edwards wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 12:40:45PM -0400, Joseph A. Caputo wrote:
> > >>> Not my fault if you've built a normal Qt that links against X.
> > >>
> > >> Fair enough.  Is there some sort of abnormal Qt that doesn't
> > >> require X11?
> > >
> > > Qt/Embedded.  You need DirectFB, though.
> >
> > In my case I'm running a frontend on the same machine and want
> > to keep X for other stuff, so it's no loss to have stuff linked
> > with X and not use it.  For people running a headless back end
> > server, it seems a bit of a waste.
>
> Couple MBs of X libraries vs. GBs and GBs of recorded video.  I fail
> to see how it matters in the slightest.

Well, for most people I guess that's true, but in all fairness, some 
people try to get away with as small a disk as possible for their boot/
root partition(s).  IIRC, someone had (or was trying to get) a 
bootable, working distro with Myth on a CF card.

-JAC