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

[Paul Pick]

> > 1) All myth backends do is compress a data stream and send it out.  They 
> > have no need to store any data, at least with respect to Live TV.
>
> This isn't how things happen today, and would represent a major change.

 I don't have a mythbox handy just now but isn't it true that the
backend uses a fifo when viewing live tv? If the name of that
fifo were predictable then could it be linked from another system
via a network block device?

http://www.it.uc3m.es/ptb/enbd/

The frontend would need some changes to use a nbd, true, but
would they be that major?

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