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

[Adam Auden]

On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 09:17:49 -0700, Alexander Petkov
<ap154036 at cue1.umt.edu> wrote:

> Assuming that you want 2 or 3 different frontends to watch live tv, the answer is "yes." You
> need to have 2 or 3 tuner cards installed, respectively.
>
> I believe that's where your limitation lies--the dish network (satelite, correct?). You will need
> to have 2 sat. receivers in order to change channels independently (was it a 2-LBN dish?).
> If you have 1 sat. receiver, woulnd't all frontends watch the same channel?

Would it be possible for multiple frontends to stream the same live
feed, or indeed record a program and watch it remotely at the same
time?  Surely you need only as many capture cards as *different* live
feeds required?

A.

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