[mythtv-users] Mythcommflag - which backend

[Byron Poland]

On 10/18/05, Chris Pinkham <cpinkham at bc2va.org> wrote:
> > I have an underpowered diskless combined front/back end and a master
> > backend/mysql/fileserver with bags of left over cpu. How can I force
> > mythcommflag to always run on the master backend with the excess cpu?
>
> Go into mythtv-setup on each of the other backends and turn OFF the
> setting that says "Allow Commercial Detection jobs".  Commercial flagging
> jobs can only run on backends that have this setting turned ON.
>
> > I see that I can select to have a recording flagged by another backend but
> > I can't see anything that can make a single machine into a "mythcommflag
> > server" for all slave backends. Is it possible?
>
> Possible and designed to allow it. :)  You can do the same with the
> transcoding and User Jobs.
>

Is this true?  I tried to get a non-tuner backend to do all my
commflaging and transcoding, while commflagging worked fine,
transcoding only worked on the master backend....

Or was the solution that I needed nfs access to my backend storage for
transcoding to work?  Just curious.