[mythtv-users] Multiple frontends watching the same backend program.

Robert Denier denier at umr.edu
Tue Jan 18 23:11:28 EST 2005


Is it at all possible to have multiple frontends watch the same backend 
that is capturing a live program?

What would be ideal for me is to have them all display the dish network 
channel, and have any of them able to change the channel.

Right now I usually end up having to either go into the other room and 
stop the front end's viewing tv, or killing it via a kill command, which 
then usually requires killing and restarting the backend as well.

Perhaps I'm doing something wrong.  I'm using the .16 ebuild for gentoo..

In my case multiple = 2, but it could equal 3 in the future.

I suppose this would require sending the compressed datastream to two or 
more terminals at once.  Perhaps a multicast list?  I'm not sure.

At any rate I was just curious if any of this was possible or perhaps 
just a matter of me doing something differently.




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