What I think would be interesting is a "portable" backend. (ie for laptops). This backend would do no recording on its own, but simply copy files from a master backend as well as the needed database info so that mythtv can be used on the road when there is no contact with the master backend.
Very interesting idea, Geoff. This could be done one of two ways:
1) Implement a new backend program (mythportablebackend? mythpback?) Not impossible, but implementing the MySQL API might be tedious, and keeping all the Myth protocols up to date with the real backend is a bit of a maintenance pain. I thought about this in the early days of the Mac frontend port, when I was catching a train to/from work and thus was away from a backend to test against
2) Use the current mythbackend with a local MySQL and a database modified from the real one. The patches I included should let you build a mythbackend binary, and a few shell or Perl scripts could be hacked to select programs, copy them, and insert relevant local database entries
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