<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 10:47 AM, Brad DerManouelian <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:myth@dermanouelian.com">myth@dermanouelian.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div class="Ih2E3d">On Jan 8, 2009, at 3:42 PM, Craig Sanders wrote:<br><br>> On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 01:57:17PM -0800, Brad DerManouelian wrote:<br>>>> "Remove" meaning don't run it--don't uninstall it.<br>
>><br>>> Curious as to why you recommend leaving the backend installed on a<br>>> frontend machine. If there are no tuners on the machine, it's not<br>>> good<br>>> and even potentially harmful to run.<br>
><br>> since when is it harmful?<br>><br>> i have BE installed on all my FE boxes (mostly amd64 workstations with<br>> myth installed so we can watch TV & videos at our desk if we want)<br>> just<br>
> to make use of additional CPU power while transcoding multiple shows<br>> at<br>> once. it works fine. i start the transcoding jobs manually after<br>> editing<br>> out the ads...sometimes there are 8 or more transcoding jobs running<br>
> at<br>> once.<br>><br>> in fact, myth's network-centric model was the main reason i switched<br>> from running VDR to myth last year....was waiting for multirec. since<br>> then, i've gone from VDR w/ one tuner card on one machine (plus an<br>
> xbox<br>> running xbmc) to myth w/ 5 tuner cards on 4 machines (with the xbox<br>> retired).<br>><br></div><cut a bunch of setup stuff><br><br>Running mythbackend without tuners is an unsupported configuration.<br>
You will get warning messages about it and may break in some cases (or<br>in the future) and no one will fix it because it's unsupported. It's<br>only by chance that it's working for you.<br><br>The supported method of running jobs on other machines that do not<br>
have tuners is to run mythjobqueue.<br><font color="#888888"><br></font></blockquote>
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<div>Is this still true? About a year ago I was reccomended a "master backend without tuners" setup (all storage on master backend, all tuners on net-booting slave backends) on this very list...</div></div>