[mythtv-users] Linux wall wart pulls 5 watts - could make a great master backend

[Michael T. Dean]

On 02/24/2009 08:28 PM, Brad Templeton wrote:
> Tunerless slave backends work fine, I use them for transcode jobs etc. 

I still have to wonder what benefit that specific configuration 
provides...  I can see how a tunerless master backend could be useful 
for power saving/running in a VM on an always-on machine, but for a 
remote backend, it becomes a mythjobqueue server--the only difference 
being that by running mythbackend instead of mythjobqueue, you're a) 
running an unsupported configuration that may fail at any time (even 
without any version updates or whatever) and b) you're wasting a lot of 
memory that would be /far/ more useful for the actual 
transcoding/commflagging jobs it's running...

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/347829#347829
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/365270#365270

At least until the tunerless backend is supported, why not do it the 
right way and run mythjobqueue?

Mike