[mythtv-users] USA to Europe

David Watkins watkinshome at gmail.com
Thu May 10 13:35:23 UTC 2007


On 10/05/07, Brian J. Murrell <brian at interlinx.bc.ca> wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 07:15 -0600, Kevin Wentland wrote:
> > Just a hypothetical question.
> >
> > Say a person had a home in the USA and a Home in Europe.  Lets also
> > say that said person has a Myth box setup in the USA.
>
> A-yup.
>
> > What would be the best solution for said person to to watch his Myth
> > recorded programs in Europe?
>
> I have actually been giving something like this some thought.
>
> > Is there a way to mirror the USA box to the Europe box?
>
> My idea goes even a bit further than this.
>
> Let's say I have two backends, and each one of them has a tuner in it,
> (or maybe even only one has a tuner)... it would be nice if those
> backends could co-operate and schedule using the other backend's tuner.
>
> Obviously a tuner in the local backend should have preference.  But
> let's say that for one backend's schedule, there is a conflict, but at
> the same time, the other backend has nothing recording.  The backend
> with the conflict should be able to ask the other backend to do the
> recording for it and then transfer the file when done and remove it from
> the origin backend's recorded programs.  In fact it should not even be
> registered on the backend that it was recorded on as having been
> recorded.

I'm confused - are you assuming the same programmes are being
broadcast in both Europe and the US at the same time.


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