[mythtv-users] USA to Europe

Steve Daniels steve.p.daniels at googlemail.com
Thu May 10 13:59:59 UTC 2007


Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 14:35 +0100, David Watkins wrote:
>> I'm confused - are you assuming the same programmes are being
>> broadcast in both Europe and the US at the same time.
> 
> Nope.  The mythbackend in Europe would see the schedule from the
> location that the tuner in the USA is in (maybe mythfilldatabase is
> involved in this, getting the database from the remote backend) and at
> the scheduling layer, would see the other backend as simply a tuner.
> 
> Probably my only reason for thinking about this in terms of "tuners" is
> that it prevents inventing a whole new function in myth (i.e. to move
> recordings from one backend to another) and isolates the needed
> functionality to that of a new type of tuner.  Mythbackend already knows
> about remote tuners so that part is done.
> 
> b.

I must be missing something, isn't this just how it would work if you'd 
set the one in the US to be a slave of the EU one, and then just rsync 
the files across?

Steve


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