[mythtv-users] Mult-system design

[Rich West]

That's definitely the hurdle that I am trying to get my brain over. 
I've got it embedded in my brain that a STB is required to be near the
TV....

So.. there has to be some where in the settings to point it to a
particular backend tuner?  Or is it that you just point it (the front
end) to the backend, and the backend handles all of that?

-Rich

> Yes. You need to get over the idea that a tuner needs to be near your  
> TV in order to use it. One of the beautiful things about mythtv is  
> that you can use tuners that are anywhere on your network as long as  
> mythbackend is running on the machine. No one tuner is allocated to a  
> single viewing point any more. What really happens when you watch  
> "Live TV" is that the backend starts capturing video and your  
> frontend plays back the capture - the same way as if it was recorded  
> months ago except it's recorded a few seconds ago instead.