On 9/26/05, Greg Woods <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 12:48 +0100, Neil Bird wrote: > You only need a backend process on machines that have tuner cards in > them. If you just want to watch recordings, or watch live TV via a tuner > located in another backend machine, then you don't need a local backend > process.
On the other hand, having a running backend process allows the machine to help transcoding and commercial flagging, which, as long as the frontend is fast enough, can be a great thing, especially during the fall season. :) _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
