[mythtv-users] Commercial detecting on a remote backend? Should it work?

[Michael T. Dean]

On 10/24/2014 08:25 PM, Hika van den Hoven wrote:
> Hoi John,
>
> Saturday, October 25, 2014, 1:08:47 AM, you wrote:
>
>> I have a linux box that is sitting mostly idle in the evenings and I
>> want to use it to help with commercial flagging when it is available.  I
>> have the backend running on the "idle" linux box and I can see it get
>> the comflag job passed to it however it does not appear to flag the
>> commercials.  I have noticed that if a recording is commercial flagged
>> on the same host as the recording the breaks appear to work but if the
>> commercial flagging is done on a backend where the recording was not
>> generated then the breaks appear to not be flagged at all.
>> Any information on this would be appreciated.
>> _______________________________________________
> Start a backend on that machine and set it in mythtv-setup to accept
> the jobs you want to run there. Also if you no longer want the run
> them on the masterbackend, disable it there. I use this to run
> transcoding jobs on my normal working machine, that has a 6 core
> athlon, while the master backend has enough to do.

Or if the machine you want to run the jobs doesn't have tuners, don't 
run mythbackend, but run mythjobqueue instead.  It's 1/10th the system 
resources and will do the job properly and was designed to work on a 
system without tuners (as opposed to mythbackend, which requires tuners).

Mike