[mythtv-users] 2 Backends, but only using one!

[John Kim]

It all started working without me implementing any changes...  Hmmm...

What I did try was the Picture-in-Picture function which worked right
away.

Now, a sort of tangent:
My master backend is a hefty P4 2.6GHz, but my slave backend is only a P3
800MHz.  Both are using brooktree tuners/software encoding.

Is there a way to configure it so that the master backend encodes at
higher quality while the slave encodes at lower quality?  I see that
changing the encoding quality on one frontend seems to change it on both.

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John Kim

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On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, Bruce Markey wrote:

> John Kim wrote:
> > I have one master backend and one slave backend, each with one tuner card
> > installed.
> >
> > And if I look at the database, there are two capture cards listed, one for
> > each machine.
> >
> > But from either frontend, it behaves as if there's only one backend(the
> > master one.)
> >
> > The fix-conflict screen shows conflicts even if there's only two programs
> > set to record at once.  If I go to one computer and start watching live
> > TV, and try the same thing on the other, it says that the tuner card is
> > occupied.  If I change the recording profile on one computer, it changes
> > on the other as well.
> >
> > It's also configured so that they each use their own HD for storage.  The
> > master has 160GB, which the slave has 70GB.  But even if I go to the
> > slave, if I go into delete recording screen, it shows that I have 160GB
> > free!
>
> Given these symptons the most likely explaination is that either
> there is not a "mythbackend" process running on the slave machine
> or if it is running it is not connecting to the master properly.
>
> In a shell on the slave machine, run:
>
> $ mythbackend
> Running as a slave backend.
> 2004-03-26 17:51:35 mythbackend version: 0.15.20040324-1 www.mythtv.org
> 2004-03-26 17:51:35 Enabled verbose msgs : important general
> 2004-03-26 17:51:36 Connecting to master server: 192.168.0.35:6543
> 2004-03-26 17:51:36 Connected successfully
>
> Verify that you see both "Running as a slave backend" and "Connecting
> to master server". The master should also announce that the slave
> has connected and "found changes in the todo list" to rework the
> schedule for the current number of cards.
>
> > When I start mythfrontend -v on the slave, it says that it's connecting to
> > the backend on the master!  Where do I configure so that it connects to
> > the local backend?
>
> All frontends connect to the master at first but if playback is
> a file on a slave then it will open sockets for control and data
> from the slave.
>
> --  bjm
>