<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/21/08, <b class="gmail_sendername">Bert Van Kets</b> <<a href="mailto:mythtv-users@vankets.com">mythtv-users@vankets.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">However, sometimes I do want to perform two actions at the same time or<br>pause one and temporarily run another.<br>
Some examples are:<br>- index my 100GB music collection in background while watching a recording<br>- pause a live view and switch to another program while the wife is out<br>of the room<br>- listen to music while watching pictures or cutting recordings.<br>
- listen to music while surfing the web or reading feeds.</blockquote>
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<div>Are you sure you need to have two frontends running (with the complications of two programs trying to access the video and audio cards, etc.</div>
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<div>For your examples:</div>
<div>- Reindexing my 90GB music collection only takes 2 minutes tops - so it's not a big deal for me to wait for it (maybe the indexing is better in trunk than 0.20?)</div>
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<div>- Pause a live view and switch - have you tried using the PiP functionality?</div>
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<div>- Listening to music which watching pictures, surfing web, reading feeds - this functionality is already in trunk (miniplayer) and works great. You can't listen to music while cutting recordings though.</div>
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<div>So - if you're still on 0.20 (MythDora) it might be worth upgrading to 0.21-fixes (now or when it released) and how many of your concerns are already addressed.</div><br> </div>