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ryan.kremser at gmail

Feb 16, 2005, 4:28 PM

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possible for non-master backend transcode and commercial detect?

Hello, I have a strange situation i have a very slow desktop i'm using
as a backend but i do have a somewhat powerfull laptop which i'm not
using at all at the moment and wanted to know how possible it would be
to set the laptop up do to the transcoding and commercial detection.
I would make it the master backend aside from free space limitations
and the fact that i can't get my pvr-350 into it. Again just
wondering if there is any way to do this because that backend system
i'm using now is an old pentium 3 running at 433mhz. Works fine
unless i try to use the commercial detection or transcode anything.

jarod at wilsonet

Feb 16, 2005, 5:19 PM

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Re: possible for non-master backend transcode and commercial detect? [In reply to]

On Wednesday 16 February 2005 16:28, Ryan Kremser wrote:
> Hello, I have a strange situation i have a very slow desktop i'm using
> as a backend but i do have a somewhat powerfull laptop which i'm not
> using at all at the moment and wanted to know how possible it would be
> to set the laptop up do to the transcoding and commercial detection.
> I would make it the master backend aside from free space limitations
> and the fact that i can't get my pvr-350 into it. Again just
> wondering if there is any way to do this because that backend system
> i'm using now is an old pentium 3 running at 433mhz. Works fine
> unless i try to use the commercial detection or transcode anything.

Yes, you can do that. Run the setup utility on the master backend and uncheck
"Allow Commercial Detection jobs" in the General section (6th page). Get the
laptop tied to the mbe, run the setup utility on it, and make sure its got
that box checked (might also want to ramp up the number of simultaneous jobs
permitted).

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bic1 at optonline

Feb 16, 2005, 7:08 PM

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Re: possible for non-master backend transcode andcommercial detect? [In reply to]

I found another problem in my rc.local I had

/usr/bin/ivtvfbctl /dev/fb1 -alpha -on -globalalpha -nolocalalpha

(20 ~ 30 gray / whitish lines on the video test)

commenting this out got the output going.

Thanks everyone for your help,
Scott

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cpinkham at bc2va

Feb 16, 2005, 11:21 PM

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Re: possible for non-master backend transcode and [In reply to]

> Hello, I have a strange situation i have a very slow desktop i'm using
> as a backend but i do have a somewhat powerfull laptop which i'm not
> using at all at the moment and wanted to know how possible it would be
> to set the laptop up do to the transcoding and commercial detection.
> I would make it the master backend aside from free space limitations
> and the fact that i can't get my pvr-350 into it. Again just
> wondering if there is any way to do this because that backend system
> i'm using now is an old pentium 3 running at 433mhz. Works fine
> unless i try to use the commercial detection or transcode anything.

This was already replied to telling you how to setup commercial flagging.
I just committed a patch to CVS which also allows you to do remote
transcoding on a system that has write access to the recordings directory.
The commercial flagger does not need access to the recordings directory
since it can stream the program from the backend to "play" it, but
since the transcoder writes out a new file, it must have write access
to the recordings directory.

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Chris

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