[mythtv-users] Second mythbackend process on slave backend

[John Veness]

Chris Pinkham wrote:
> MythTV 0.21 fires off another
> instance of mythbackend to generate the preview pixmap for a recording.
> This new copy doesn't run the scheduler or talk to tuners or anything
> like that, it just runs the preview generator code.

Out of interest, any particular reason you didn't make a new binary - 
mythprevgen or something - for this? Up until now multiple mythbackend 
processes on one machine is an error condition, and so people with 
monitoring scripts would need to modify them.

cheers,

John

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John Veness, MythTV user, UK, DVB-T