[mythtv-users] Multiple mythbackend processes

[Grant Edwards]

On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 01:15:56PM -0400, Isaac Richards wrote:

>>> 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.

It probably doesn't.  It's just uneeded complexity and extra
points of failure.

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Grant Edwards
grante at visi.com