[mythtv] Breaking Live-TV

[Isaac Richards]

On Friday 11 November 2005 09:03 am, Joseph A. Caputo wrote:
> On Friday 11 November 2005 3:22, Nigel Pearson wrote:
> > >  Will this change enable 2 frontends to watch the same channel
>
> without
>
> > > taking up 2 video inputs ?
> >
> > 	I am fairly sure it won't, but you can do this in other ways.
> > (e.g. MythStreamTV)
>
> Actually, I thought that part of the intent was to enable just that...
> one frontend would be in true 'LiveTV' mode, able to change channels.
> Each channel/program that is 'surfed' to in LiveTV mode shows up as a
> recording in the list.  Other frontends could then watch any of the
> in-progress recordings just like any other recording -- just not in
> 'LiveTV' mode.  Caveats, of course, being that the in-progress
> recording would end at the point where the controlling frontend changed
> the channel.
>
> Isaac, am I in the ballpark on this?

Yup.  Should also be able to have a second frontend join the live-tv session 
and have it follow channel changes as well.

Isaac