[mythtv-users] Transcode jobs execute on the backend in which the video was recorded?

Brad DerManouelian myth at dermanouelian.com
Sun Aug 10 01:54:54 UTC 2008


On Aug 9, 2008, at 3:25 PM, Aaron Klein wrote:

> I have two backends in a master and slave situation.  I am seeing job
> load balencing on tasks like commflag and transcode.  For commflag
> this load balencing causes the backend that is not recording the show
> to do the commflaging.  So if backend 1 is recording usually backend 2
> does the commflagging.  Or if I schedule a transcode job to occur on
> backend 1 for a show that was recorded on backend 1 it will
> occasionally run on backend 2 expecially if backend 1 is already
> running a job like a transcode or commflag.  This of course causes
> problems if one schedules a series of transcode jobs in a row to
> execute one right after the other.
>
> How can I configure these systems to only run the transcode job on the
> backend in which the show was acutally recorded on.

Check the box that says, "Run Jobs only on original recording backend".
It's the second Job Queue page in the General Options in mythtv-setup.



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