[mythtv-users] DVB-S2 IP tuner
Simon Hobson
linux at thehobsons.co.uk
Sat Jan 4 19:03:48 UTC 2020
Jan Ceuleers <jan.ceuleers at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I am curious, is there an advantage to doing it either of those ways vs running a MythTV slave backend on the PC instead ?
>
> A slave backend needs to be online not only during the recording but
> also during playback.
>
> This is the case because the recording is associated with the backend
> which recorded it, meaning that the (slave in this case) backend needs
> storage, whether local or otherwise. This is in fact another
> disadvantage of the slave backend approach: the need for dedicated storage.
Ah, I hadn't realised that. I had in mind the slave BE recording to storage on the master BE.
Simon
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