[mythtv-users] Can a master backend have no inputs?

David George david at thegeorges.us
Fri Mar 11 12:26:41 UTC 2005


On 3/11/2005 7:03 AM, William wrote:

>>Can a master backend have no capture cards or devices, and 
>>only have them in 
>>one or more slave backends? The docs seem a bit ambiguous about this 
>>(admittedly unusual) case.
>>    
>>
>What is the point? If you want to put your storage somewhere else thats easy
>to do but its not really a backend if it does not have a capture device.
>  
>
I am not the OP, but I have thought about doing this.  Two reasons why I 
thought about it: 1) I have a nice dual-processor file server, would be 
nice to have scheduling and transcoding done on it, and 2) My fileserver 
is on all the time, it would be nice to set it up so that the fileserver 
(master backend) told the slave backends to wake up when they have 
something to record (electricity is expensive around here).  Oh, and why 
don't I put any capture cards in the fileserver?  Because I don't have 
any free slots, and I can't buy a USB capture device right now (too many 
other priorities).

Of course I haven't tried it yet, but I am seriously thinking about it. :-)

--
David



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