I thought the using multiple channels on a mux was the easy part. Just integrating it all with the scheduler which is the hard part, something your solution doesn't really help with.<br><br>Ash<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">
On 11/30/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Rev Simon Rumble</b> <<a href="mailto:simon@rumble.net">simon@rumble.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
So I was thinking about this and thought up a dodgy hack that might just<br>work. It's not perfect in many ways.<br><br>I notice some discussions about IPTV streams being usable in MythTV. So<br>if you had a tuner for every multiplex, you could demux each tuner and
<br>turn each into an IPTV stream (with dvbstream?). Each stream is then<br>seen as an individual "tuner", from the MythTV perspective.<br><br>Of course there's problems:<br>* You'll need a tuner per multiplex, or at least one free tuner to be an
<br> "ordinary" tuner to catch the rest<br>* There's a continuous overhead doing the demuxing and streaming, even<br> when nobody's watching/recording anything<br><br>Now I know little about IPTV, but does this sound plausible? Can
<br>dvbstream or similar product IPTV streams?<br><br>For people in the UK, it might be enough to have three tuners for DVB-t,<br>one for the main BBC mux, one for the C4/ITV mux and a floating one for<br>the rest. That would cover the vast majority of really useful content.
<br><br>Those of us in Australia don't get a whole lot of multichanneling right<br>now, so it wouldn't help much for us. Our politicians need a changing.<br><br>--<br>Rev Simon Rumble <<a href="mailto:simon@rumble.net">
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