[mythtv-users] Slave back end setup commercial flagging

[Brent Bolin]

On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 1:30 AM, Brent Bolin <brent.bolin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 11:42 PM, Jim Stichnoth <stichnot at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 7:56 PM, Brent Bolin <brent.bolin at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I'm considering setting up a slave back end to just do commercial flagging.
>>>
>>> Also this slave back end will be running in a Xen domU environment.
>>> Will this work?
>>>
>>> Are there any good howto for setting up slave environments?
>>>
>>> I've found this
>>> http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-23.html#ss23.24 but it doesn't
>>> go into much detail about setup.
>>>
>>> Example:
>>> How does the slave machine scan the video for flagging?
>>>
>>> I have all mpeg2 OTA recordings.  Is this done with an NFS mount of my
>>> recordings directory?  Or is it done via a network stream?
>>
>> You don't need to try to set up a slave backend.  You can use
>> mythjobqueue instead.  First run mythtv-setup to configure what kinds
>> of jobs the machine can do (e.g. commflagging) and how many
>> simultaneous jobs it can handle.  Then arrange for mythjobqueue to
>> always be running, such as starting it at boot time.  The content can
>> be delivered by the myth network stream, so no NFS mounting is needed.
>>
>> Jim
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>
> Not sure I understand.  Have a mythbuntu backend setup.  also have
> three mythbuntu frontends
>
> I want to unload the processing currently done on the backend to
> another backend slave(xen domU)
>

Take virtualization out of the picture for now.

If I had another box that I wanted to setup as a slave back end.  How
would I go about doing that?  And setting up the slave to do all the
commercial flagging?