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

[Kevin Kuphal]

Adam Auden wrote:

>On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 09:17:49 -0700, Alexander Petkov
><ap154036 at cue1.umt.edu> wrote:
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>>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.
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>>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?
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>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?
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Technically, you could have multiple frontends accessing a live TV 
tuner, but it is not implemented I believe due to the confusion over 
which stream controls the tuner in terms of changing channels, pausing 
and rewinding, and a host of other issues that develop in that scenario.

Kevin