[mythtv-users] Second mythbackend process on slave backend

[Chris Pinkham]

* On Tue Mar 25, 2008 at 10:48:45AM -0400, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 03/25/2008 06:31 AM, John Veness wrote:
> > Chris Pinkham wrote:
 
> >> MythTV 0.21 fires off another
> >> instance of mythbackend to generate the preview pixmap for a recording.

> > Out of interest, any particular reason you didn't make a new binary - 

I didn't do it, so.... :)

> AIUI, moving from mythbackend generating previews to mythbackend
> generating previews in a separate process was hard.  Moving all the code
> from mythbackend that's involved in generating previews to a whole new

I personally would prefer to see some new binary be created that would
take things like the following features out of their existing unrelated
binaries and put them into a common 'mythhelper' or similar appp.
Things like:

  - clear/set cutlist operations (mythcommflag)
  - preview generation (mythbackend)
  - regenerate seektable (mythcommflag/mythtranscode) (once I finally
    get a chance to work on the ticket to convert all decoders/recorders
    to a common seektable format)
  - clear settings cache (mythbackend)

A really ambitious developer could even code up a 'telnet' client into
this app for use with the network control interface in mythfrontend.  It
could have an interactive mode or a way to send just one command.

--
Chris