[mythtv] Similtaneous TV watching on multiple frontends

[Bruce Markey]

Isaac Richards wrote:
> 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?  

Agreed. I think this is just looking at things the wrong way around.
If the user simply marks the show to record (as simple as pressing
"R"), then any number of frontends could watch the same show in-
progress at different points, watch it later, leave it and come
back or whatever.

--  bjm