[mythtv-users] Moving MythTV backend to another computer

[jedi]

On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 06:33:07PM +0100, Sam Jacobs wrote:
> On 2 April 2014 at 15:17:57, Michael T. Dean (mtdean at thirdcontact.com) wrote:
> > On 04/02/2014 09:42 AM, Sam Jacobs wrote:
> > > On 2 April 2014 at 14:23:22, Michael T. Dean wrote:

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> > Running 2 backends is actually a waste if you
> > don't need them, and I can't think of any reason you'd need more than
> > one backend except for scalability reasons--i.e. you have more tuners
> > than you can fit/power/... in one backend. And, anywhere you have a
> > backend, you have to have network cables, so in many cases you can use
> > network tuners and use the cables you have already run.
> 
> Mac OS X doesn’t have drivers for USB tuners, not any that MythTV can talk to, 
> anyway. I did try using a Linux virtual machine, but 

Really? I thought there were a number of USB tuners that you could use with
EyeTV these days including the Hauppauge 1313? That kind of sucks...

> neither Parallels nor VirtualBox would work. If I could use my tuners on the Mac mini then I wouldn’t be running a slave BE. Having it all in one—very, very quiet—machine would no doubt boost “W”AF, but there’s no way to do that, presently.

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