[mythtv-users] backends without tuners (was Re: Transcoding is being done on frontends, not backend)

[Brad DerManouelian]

On Jan 8, 2009, at 5:21 PM, jarpublic at gmail.com wrote:

>
>> I am a little confused now. I was aware of the fact that tunerless  
>> backends are unsupported. But in the thread that this one branch  
>> from, I thought it was said that running a frontend only system  
>> without a backend is also unsupported. So if only FE/BE or BE  
>> systems are officially supported and only BE with tuners are  
>> supported, then what is a supported FE only machine? Does this  
>> actually mean that on a FE only machine we should install BE but we  
>> should then take steps post install to make sure the BE doesn't  
>> run, because there are no tuners? Or have misunderstood what was  
>> said? This seems awfully convoluted to me.
>
> Sorry, where does it say running a frontend without a backend is  
> unsupported?
>
>
>
> Mike said it at the end of the thread about transcoding on  
> frontends: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/365123#365123 
> . He said:
>
> "Yeah, just not worth the space, and since the only supported  
> configuration is an installation of both mythfrontend and mythbackend"
>
> It didn't sound right to me, so I assumed I was reading it wrong or  
> confused. What does that comment mean?

Installing, not running. He said that because frontend shares  
libraries with backend and no one has a package that cleanly installs  
one without the other and since the space savings is negligible,  
there's no incentive to. Supported method is installing both and only  
running a backend when you have a tuner in the machine. The frontend  
has no backend requirement other than being able to connect to the  
master backend properly.

-Brad

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