On Saturday 14 January 2006 19:10, Robert Johnston wrote: > On 1/14/06, Jay Hutfles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm just curious if anyone has tried clustering backends together to > > speed up post-recording jobs like commercial detection or transcoding. > > Wouldn't something like openMosix work? > > > > If not, sorry for getting off-topic. > > OpenMosix wouldn't really help Myth's backend all that much, as > Commercial Detection and Transcoding are both single-threaded. As it > stands, if you set up another backend, jobs can be sent to it, so Myth > parallel-processes by itself (As much as it can with single-threaded > tasks).
you also then need to worry about recording drive speed, it needs to be able to keep up with recording, playback and transcoding/mythcommflagging, which in the world of HD streams can make things more of a challenge. -- Steve _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
