bA<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/8/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Kevin Kuphal</b> <<a href="mailto:kuphal@dls.net">kuphal@dls.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Thomas Hawkins wrote:<br>> I have two computers. Both Ubuntu 6.06. Since I finally figured out<br>> how to make automatic transcoding and commercial flagging possible, I<br>> would like to offload that responsibility to my second box. I use it
<br>> mostly for playing Civilization 4 in Windows, so when I'm not doing<br>> that, it is just sitting idle and could be taking the load off of my<br>> main desktop system.<br>><br>> I have seen tutorials on how to offload flagging to a second machine,
<br>> but nothing for the transcoding.<br>><br>> Could someone point me to a tutorial on that? Or explain how it<br>> should be done? Here is what I figure I have to do so far:<br>><br>> I'd imagine first I would have to set up NFS or some how mount the
<br>> remote partition which contains all of my myth recordings.<br>> Then I would have to install mythfrontend and mythbackend on the<br>> second computer.<br>> I would also have to reconfigure my frontend on my master computer
<br>> with an IP that can be reached from the second computer.<br>> I have to disable automatic flagging (and transcoding?) on my master<br>> server and enable it on the secondary.<br>> Create custom jobs that would do the flagging and transcoding. (This
<br>> is the part I'm not so sure about.*)<br>><br>> * I have seen tutorials for doing the automatic flagging, but not<br>> automatic transcoding. I'm also not sure how good this will operate<br>> over a wireless network (or a 10Mb connection) although I suspect it
<br>> will be less troublesome then trying to stream TV.<br>><br>> Am I headed in the right direction at least?<br>Basically, you follow the instructions for setting up a slave backend<br>but it doesn't have any tuners in it and then you run mythtv-setup on
<br>each backend and set what jobs can run on each and how many.<br><br>You can also opt to run mythjobqueue instead of mythbackend after you<br>have done the setup if you don't want to run the whole backend process<br>(maybe on a machine that does other things for you).
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