[mythtv-users] backends without tuners (was Re: Transcoding is being done on frontends, not backend)

[Krzysztof Adamski]

On Thu, 2009-08-01 at 17:26 -0800, Brad DerManouelian wrote:
> On Jan 8, 2009, at 5:21 PM, jarpublic at gmail.com wrote:
> 
> > 
> >         > I am a little confused now. I was aware of the fact that
> >         > tunerless backends are unsupported. But in the thread that
> >         > this one branch from, I thought it was said that running a
> >         > frontend only system without a backend is also
> >         > unsupported. So if only FE/BE or BE systems are officially
> >         > supported and only BE with tuners are supported, then what
> >         > is a supported FE only machine? Does this actually mean
> >         > that on a FE only machine we should install BE but we
> >         > should then take steps post install to make sure the BE
> >         > doesn't run, because there are no tuners? Or have
> >         > misunderstood what was said? This seems awfully convoluted
> >         > to me. 
> >         
> >         
> >         Sorry, where does it say running a frontend without a
> >         backend is unsupported?
> >         
> >         
> >         
> > 
> > Mike said it at the end of the thread about transcoding on
> > frontends:
> > http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/365123#365123. He
> > said:
> > 
> > "Yeah, just not worth the space, and since the only supported
> > configuration is an installation of both mythfrontend and
> > mythbackend"
> > 
> > It didn't sound right to me, so I assumed I was reading it wrong or
> > confused. What does that comment mean?
> 
> 
> Installing, not running. He said that because frontend shares
> libraries with backend and no one has a package that cleanly installs
> one without the other and since the space savings is negligible,
> there's no incentive to. Supported method is installing both and only
> running a backend when you have a tuner in the machine. The frontend
> has no backend requirement other than being able to connect to the
> master backend properly.

The Debian-media package installs the frontend without backend without any problems. 
The only thing that is does wrong is that it forces mysql server to be installed on a frontend only machine.

K