[mythtv-users] Watch different live TV channels on each frontend

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Fri Jan 6 23:18:27 UTC 2006


John Andersen wrote:

>On 1/2/06, R <rawgarlic at gmail.com> wrote:
>  
>
>>Just a few hours ago I learned about MythTV.
>>So please excuse my igonorance.
>>
>>With 1 backend and its 1 TV Tuner card
>>and multiple frontends - Can each frontend
>>watch a different live TV channel?
>>    
>>
>No.  In fact only one frontend can watch
>live tv at a time with a single tuner.
>  
>
Completely true for 0.18, but AIUI, with the changes to LiveTV, 0.19 
will allow as many frontends as you have resources to support to watch 
the same LiveTV channel even with only one tuner card (because LiveTV is 
just another recording).

Mike


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