[mythtv-users] Multiple front ends watching the same channel

[Brad Templeton]

On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 12:19:54AM -0500, intent wrote:
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> 
> On Mon, 28 Mar 2005, Cecil Watson wrote:
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> > intent wrote:
> >
> > >If a given frontend is watching a channel, or more generally watching TV
> > >(i.e. possibly switching channels), is it possible to let all other
> > >frontends display the same thing? Sort of a passive frontend mode.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > Sure, if you have multiple tuners.
> 
> Sorry, I meant with the one tuner. The only way I can see to do it at
> present is to record that channel, then have all the frontends watch the
> recording. But that's not quite what I'd like it to do.

Unless you are really tight on disk space, I strongly advise you to
never watch live tv, to always start recording the show and watching
the recording.

Aside from the ability described, to watch it on two frontends, you
are much safer.  If you watch TV you are in a vulnerable state.  Any
problem, even the accidental pressing of escape or a number of other
keys, will lose your recording buffer.    This is extremely frustrating
if you are watching many minutes behind and lose the end of a program,
for example.

Why risk it?

Isaac has said he hopes to move LiveTV over to being more like a
special case of a recorded program anyway, to avoid some of these
problems and unify the code base, but until this happens I find
LiveTV more of a gimmick than a useful feature.