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

[Mike Carron]

On 10/24/2014 07:21 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> 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
>
***
This looks like just the right advice at just the right time, for me at 
least! Can mythjobqueue coexist with mythfrontend?

mike