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Revision as of 20:30, 5 February 2011
The backend process (mythbackend) is the portion of the system that handles the Video capture cards as well as Scheduling Recordings on those cards, Commercial Detection, and transcoding. The backend process interacts with the Database primarily.
As with the MythFrontend, there can be multiple backends. One backend process is designated as the master backend. This is usually the first backend installed on a system. This backend is responsible for coordinating the activities of the other backends known as slaves. This is especially true for scheduling as the master backend will determine the best distribution of programs across all available tuners. Each backend can have any number of tuners, including zero. Commercial Detection can be distributed across different backends, thereby spreading the load of that process.
There is no requirement for direct user interaction with the backend. The backend can use local HardWare/File Storage or have it mounted from another system. If remotely mounted, network performance should be considered as there will be considerable traffic on the network as recordings are stored and retreived by the backend process.
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Command Line Options
Valid options are:
-h or --help List valid command line parameters -l or --logfile filename Writes STDERR and STDOUT messages to filename -p or --pidfile filename Write PID of mythbackend to filename -d or --daemon Runs mythbackend as a daemon -v or --verbose debug-level Use '-v help' for level info --printexpire List of auto-expire programs --printsched Upcoming scheduled programs --testsched Test run scheduler (ignore existing schedule) --resched Force the scheduler to update --nosched Do not perform any scheduling --noupnp Do not enable the UPNP server --nojobqueue Do not start the JobQueue --nohousekeeper Do not start the Housekeeper --noautoexpire Do not start the AutoExpire thread --version Version information
Communications Protocol
The backend and frontend communicate using their own Myth Protocol. Work on defining the Myth Protocol is being performed on this Wiki.
Troubleshooting
To control what debug information is logged to the log file the following switches may be used. These can be viewed by entering 'mythbackend -v help'
Verbose debug levels. Accepts any combination (separated by comma) of:
all - ALL available debug output most - Most debug (nodatabase,notimestamp) important - Errors or other very important messages general - General info record - Recording related messages playback - Playback related messages channel - Channel related messages osd - On-Screen Display related messages file - File and AutoExpire related messages schedule - Scheduling related messages network - Network protocol related messages commflag - Commercial Detection related messages audio - Audio related messages libav - Enables libav debugging jobqueue - JobQueue related messages siparser - Siparser related messages eit - EIT related messages vbi - VBI related messages database - Display all SQL commands executed dsmcc - DSMCC carousel related messages mheg - MHEG debugging messages upnp - upnp debugging messages socket - socket debugging messages xmltv - xmltv output and related messages dvbcam - DVB CAM debugging messages media - Media Manager debugging messages idle - System idle messages channelscan - Channel Scanning messages gui - GUI related messages extra - More detailed messages in selected levels timestamp - Conditional data driven messages none - NO debug output
The default for this program appears to be: '-v important,general'
Most options are additive except for none, all, and important. These three are semi-explicit and take precedence over any prior options given. You can however use something like '-v none,jobqueue' to get only JobQueue related messages and override the default verbosity level.
The additive options may also be subtracted from 'all' by prefixing them with 'no', so you may use '-v all,nodatabase' to view all but database debug messages.
Some debug levels may not apply to this program.
Need to add backend-specific troubleshooting help here, or at least link to Troubleshooting
Interpreting --printsched Output
The --printsched command line option prints out upcoming scheduled recordings.
This format is also used in mythbackend logs of scheduling activity (with -v schedule), and is particularly useful when obtaining schedule data with --testsched.
For example:
Title - Subtitle Ch Station Day Start End S C I T N Pri Ask This Old House - "Installi 21_2 WLIWDT2 13 16:30-17:00 1 1 1 A 1 0 The Simpsons - "Treehouse of Horro 11 WPIX 13 19:00-19:30 1 0 0 A R 0
Title, subtitle, channel (number), station (callsign), day, start (time) and end (time) are rather straight forward. The meanings of the other columns are:
- S - Source ID
- C - Card ID
- I - Input ID
- T - Recording Type Character
- N - Recording Status Character
- Pri - Priority
The meanings of the Recording Type Character (T) are:
- S - Single record
- T - Timeslot
- W - Weekslot
- C - Channel
- A - All
- F - Find one
- d - Find one daily
- w - Find weekly
- O - Override or Don't record
The meanings of the Recording Status Character (N) are:
- A - Aborted
- R - Recorded / Current recording
- X - Don't record
- P - Previous recording
- E - Earlier showing
- T - Too many recordings
- c - Cancelled
- M - Missed
- C - Conflict
- L - Later showing
- r - Repeat
- x - Inactive
- K - Low disk space
- B - Tuner busy
- f - Failed
- N - Not listed
- V - Never record
- F - Offline
- O - Other showing
- (a number) - the card ID on which the show is currently recording