[mythtv] [Experimental PATCH] BIG DVB PATCH V2.0 Released

[Terry Barnaby]

Taylor Jacob wrote:
>>As a matter of interest, is the DVB group looking at adding support to
>>MythTv so that multiple PID's on the same tuner frequency can be viewied
>>simultaineously ?
>>It would allow multiple TVClients to view multiple channels with less
>>DVB cards installed in the server ...
> 
> 
> Its on the long term list of things to do, but I am not 100% how to impliment it
> since you would want there to be a seperate ringbuffer for each recording and I
> haven't put enough thought into this.. Not to get too long winded yes its been
> thought about, but not much has been done yet, and I don't know that it will
> until after this code gets cleaned up and placed into myth..

Thats good that it has been thought about :)
Someone a while ago, mentioned that it could be done by changing the
MythTv API so that when a client would ask for a Recorder, it would
send the channel ID it wanted as well. In this case it would get a
separate Recorder instance for each PID.

Anyway thanks for the work on this.

Terry
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