[mythtv-users] simultaneous viewing

[Nick Rout]

On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 6:35 PM, tortise <tortise at paradise.net.nz> wrote:
> On 12/04/2012 11:37 p.m., tortise wrote:
>
>> An obvious issue to me is how many frontends will be coordinated slaves
>> and how will they be controlled in the various combinations?
>
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> (Seeing if I can reconnect the runaway thread)
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> On 13/04/2012 12:01 p.m., James Linder wrote:
>> ... and I pause my playback ... and havoc engulfs the multicast users (or
>> worse pause has no effect)
>>
>> James
>
> If I was doing this one thing I'd design into this would be a web page which
> pauses ALL linked frontends (expect android to display this page) however
> single remotes would ordinarily still be able to interfere....user
> discipline or more complex design are likely options....
>
> Reference:  http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Frontend_control_socket
>
> No option to suspend IR control of a linked FE (that I can see) was foreseen
> however lots has been.
>
> Other web page features would be WOL for frontends, frontend status,
> frontend individual and group inclusion / exclusion....
>
> An alternative more elegant UI feature might be a frontend webpage "switch"
> that makes a group of frontends behave all the same, i.e. pause one and they
> all pause, so they all do the same, obviously there are issues to this
> approach however one has to start with a goal in mind, this seems a good one
> to me.  The above socket does not seem to be capable of this level of
> functioning to my glance over what we have there.

I am struggling to see the use case here. Sure, I once had a house
full of people round to watch a rugby game, more people than were
comfortable in one room so half watched in each lounge room. Other
than that type of situation (which was Live anyway and is easier
outside myth), what really is the benefit?

Sounds like a use case for a meglamaniac who wants their whole house
watching the same thing, with said meglamaniac controlling via one
remote control.

These conversations come up regularly on this list, and I am yet to
see a use case that really makes sense in the mythtv context.

Thinking of situations where I see many screens displaying the same
thing, I think of bars with sport or fuzzy music videos playing, which
need to be exactly synched or it just doesn't work. Far easier to do
with a network of HDMI cables back to an hdmi splitter, all fed from
the same source.