[mythtv-users] Synchronising frontends

[Brian J. Murrell]

On Mon, 2010-11-15 at 21:09 +0000, Richard Morton wrote:
> But setting up a multicast compliant network is not nesscarily a
> trivial task in itself. Unicast is more likely to work on a home
> network although with greater sync issues. 

Hrm.  AFAIK, the biggest headache with setting up a multicast network is
routers between subnets, which should not likely be a problem in the
typical single-subnet home network.

Multicast has the added bonus that in such a situation where you want
multiple FEs to tune the same stream, you can do it over 802.11 at the
cost of a single stream.  With unicast you end up needing to tax your
wifi network cumulatively for each FE that wants to receive.

b.

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