[mythtv] Similtaneous TV watching on multiple frontends

[Isaac Richards]

On Wednesday 02 June 2004 04:35 pm, ebike at paradise.net.nz wrote:
> Hi There,
>
> For some reason I assumed that two or more frontends could watch TV if they
> were watching the same channel. It seems this is not so.
>
> I have had a box running backend/frontend for some time with great results.
> I have recently added another frontend on a laptop so I could watch TV in
> the bedroom, this
> works fine if no one is watching TV on the backend box. Why can we not have
> two streams running similtaneous? I don't see any technical reasons why not
> ... any views.

Because it would be terribly confusing if multiple places could control things 
like channel changing, and if only one place can control it, what's the point 
of letting multiple places watch the exact same live stream?  

Just buy another tuner card for your existing backend, or set up another 
backend.

> Also on another issue. How do I access my pictures and music files that are
> on the backend box from my remote frontend. Do I have to tell the frontend
> somehow how to use nfs/samba etc?
> If so how is that done. Can not see any docs on this. This seems the
> "natural" thing that people want to do with mythtv.

Just mount the data however you want and configure the frontend so it knows 
where you put it.

Isaac