[mythtv-users] Does a second frontend need a second backend too?

[Ryan Steffes]

On 9/26/05, Blammo <blammo.doh at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 9/26/05, Greg Woods <greg at gregandeva.net> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 12:48 +0100, Neil Bird wrote:
> > You only need a backend process on machines that have tuner cards in
> > them. If you just want to watch recordings, or watch live TV via a tuner
> > located in another backend machine, then you don't need a local backend
> > process.
>
> On the other hand, having a running backend process allows the machine
> to help transcoding and commercial flagging, which, as long as the
> frontend is fast enough, can be a great thing, especially during the
> fall season. :)
> _______________________________________________



Is remote transcoding supposed to be working now?

I've been getting errors and fails about remote transcoding being disabled
and haven't cared enough to look into it.
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