[ATrpms-users] mythcommflag and mythtranscode in mythtv-frontend, not mythtv-backend?

[Axel Thimm]

On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 08:24:43AM -0700, Joe Votour wrote:
> <snip>
> >
> > Yes, but what about mythtranscode and mythcommflag? You initially
> > suggested to move them to the backend, which seems wrong. Is the above
> > list replacing those two, or is it in addition?
> > --
> 
> Axel,
> 
> I thought you were asking about other programs, not mythtranscode and
> mythcommflag.  I was just trying to list what the rationale for the other
> programs was.
> 
> As for mythtranscode and mythcommflag, the MythTV wiki documents indicate
> that they run on the frontend - but ever since I've had a dedicated
> frontend and a dedicated backend, they've never run on the frontend.  (In
> fact, that's why I made a dedicated backend, because mythcommflag was
> killing my CPU on my combined machine while trying to watch HD.)
> 
> The documentation indicates that the default setting is to be to run
> mythcommflag on the machine that created the recording.  However, you can
> configure it to run on any machine through mythtv-setup.  The same appears
> to be true for mythtranscode.
> 
> Given that, mythcommflag and mythtranscode clearly belong in both the
> frontend and the backend (or maybe even another machine!), depending on
> the user's configuration.  It might be simple like mine (dedicated FE and
> dedicated BE), even simpler (combined FE/BE), or more complex (farm of
> servers recording, which another farm doing commercial flagging and/or
> transcoding).
> 
> Three possible solutions I see:
> 1. Make the RPMs for the frontend and the backend each contain
> mythcommflag and mythtranscode
> 2. Make mythcommflag and mythtranscode into their own RPM, listed as a
> dependency on both the frontend and the backend
> 3. Force users who want a dedicated backend to install the mythtv-frontend
> RPM as well (which is the current setup).

I browsed the source and found nothing in the backend that would
reference mythcommflag and mythtranscode. I'm not sure how the
mechanism to move transcoding to a third machine would work, e.g. what
is expected to live there, a frontend, a backend? If a backend, then
why isn't there any referencing ion the sources? If a frontend, then
that would be the first frontend to frontend communication I see, and
my frontend doesn't have a listening port open. Perhaps the docu isn't
clear on some points or is misleading.

> Your thoughts?

Getting an authoritative answer, e.g. asking on mythtv-dev? Both on
the mythcommflag/mythtranscode bits as well as all the others?
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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